This poem is the expression of the author’s feelings about something/ someone lost. Merwin shows here that even though the thing or person is gone from one’s life, they never leave you completely. People continue to search for the lost part of their life. Anyone can relate to this poem, because without a doubt everyone has lost something or someone at a time in their life.
Our minds can play tricks on us with these memories and make us think that the lost item or person is still with us. Also in relation to people, with these memories we keep one image related to that lost person and do not alter it to the present. The person most likely has changed, but to us they are the same being that left our lives in the past. The ending of the poem covers this area. People change with time, but to the poem when you are lost nothing changes. The lost person stays the same in your mind as time goes. However, even though the person may be lost in your mind, it does not mean that they are lost in their lives.
I like this poem and how just about everyone can relate in some form to it. This seems to be a pattern with the poems I choose. I think that is a good base to start at when choosing poems to respond. It is more meaningful to choose poems that others can comment on than to choose ones that only a few can understand and relate.
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