A Piece of Monologue

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Structure 'Never but the one matter. The dead and the gone. The dying and going. From the word go. The word begone. Such as the light going now. Beginning to go. In the room. Where else? Unnoticed by him staring beyond.'

The Speaker's narration concludes with this restating of his mortality. In a three-part structure, the body of the Speaker's monologue is prefaced by recognition of his human fate: 'Birth was the death of him'. The narrative's explorations 'through the grey rift in dark' are set in the context of man's living and his central awareness of mortality.