more and more slips away journal reponse2

Maira Navarro
AP English
Journal 2 (a)
“Forgetfulness”-------------Billy Collins
Contemporary Poet

S: narrator
O: recollection of all the things that can be forgotten as the human mind gets older
A: All people because all people will someday be of old age
P: to make people see the importance of memory
S: the human mind
TONE: reminiscing, simplistic, observing, a nit humorous

Billy Collins’ poem “Forgetfulness” is about the human mind and how as one gets older one beings to lose his or her memory. The poem is in a sense poking fun at the loss of memory because of its tone. I on the other hand sometimes thank God for my loss of memory. Here is why:

The first to go is your name,
Followed by the memory of that day in the rain,
The pain you put me through,
The days I cried for you,

As if I had never met you and as if those days had never come and never gone,
I ask myself at times when you pass me by in the street if all that occurred between us
Was just, that
A memory gone away
Did it really happen or is it just something that my silly head conjured up

More and more slips away,
That Valentines Day where my heart was torn
That birthday where you never called
That night that at one time seemed important

More and more slips away,
No wonder sometimes when you pass me by
I forget to remember your name
Did I ever even know it in the first place?
Maybe not
Sometimes I thank the lord above for giving me the loss of memory
Each day more and more slips away