The title of this specific piece of poetry is "A Small Elegy". Now, this title does not really give a reader much to go on. The only thing one would know about this poem is that it is a small one and that it may be about a deceased person or someone who new someone who dies. I say this because elegy is derived from the Latin elegia , which means; A poem or song composed …showed first 75 words of 722 total…

…showed last 75 words of 722 total…The speaker is empty inside because he has suffered so much great loss. He has suffered so much that he curses God and calls him a "bully" and he says to himself that he cant stand being alone for any longer and he also says that he will not live long which may imply that his life may end sooner than it has to. Bibliography Jirí Orten's poem "A Small Elegy." From his book Elegies