This poem addresses the public life. The public life in the poetry world refers to poems that affect all people of all ages. It is not private in the fact of we are not reading about things that happen behind a closed door and are unavailable to the public. In this poem, Simic is talking about the public life of an older couple. It is based in the third-person point of view speculating about the older couple’s attitude on ageing and it is this person speaking the poem.
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