This poem is a free-verse poem. There are only a few words that are similar and some that rhyme, for example ‘remains’ and ‘name’ and ‘Flowers’ and ‘visitors’. During the third stanza, I have used the word ‘they’ a few times instead of stating who the people were. This was so that the audience could imagine for themselves who this person may be, and whom the people were that had promised that they would never forget him, and they did just that. Also during the last stanza, I have included the lines “The tears lasted, /Only, /As long as the flowers/Lived on his, /Grave.” This again allows the readers to use their imagination and think about how long the flowers may have lived.
I have stressed the title of the poem throughout the poem in many ways for example the word ‘Alone’ relates to the words “Alone in a field” “No Flowers, / No visitors” and “Forgotten by world”. “Forgotten by world” gives the reader the idea that there are so many people in this world, but every single one of them has left him alone. The word ‘forgotten’ from the title also relates to the words in the poem for instance “Forgotten by world” and “no visitors”.
‘Alone And Forgotten’ is written in a third person perspective. I have written it as a third person perspective because it shows that someone else (an onlooker maybe) may relate to that person in the grave. This onlooker, even though they may not be dead and lying in a grave, feels like they are not really living; just like the dead man, he feels that he too has been “Forgotten by the world” and all the identity that he carries is his “Name”. He also relates with the rest of the poem, for example “No visitors” meaning that he has no friends and/or family, he is also lonely. The lines “Surrounded by insects” for the onlooker could mean that the human beings are insects- just as a human doesn’t understand insects, the world does not understand that man, “Trapped in a web of blackness” could mean that the onlooker feels that they are trapped in their own life.
When the onlooker comes onto the third stanza, he starts to remember that the people in his life had also said that “They love him” but now they stand alone just like the man in the grave lies alone.
The underlying subject to this poem is that people could change, and feelings change, nothing stays the same forever.