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What does it mean?
The speaker personifies regret and missed opportunities as a tragic identity.
In plain terms
I am the name of things that never happened or are too late.
What can you take from it?
Acknowledge the weight of choices not made.

Where it applies

  • reflection
  • mourning
  • life review

Putting it to work

  • acceptance
  • planning

Questions to consider

  • What did you miss?
  • How do you move on?

Another view

It can lead to unproductive dwelling.

More from Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  1. Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

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  2. When all desire at last and all regret Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain, What shall assuage the unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget?

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  3. Each hour until we meet is as a bird That wings from far his gradual way along The rustling covert of my soul.

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