Emptiness is a poem of twelve lines which are sorrowful, its mood is of loneliness and hopelessness, it has three stanzas in all, it makes use of poetic devices such as symbolism,alliteration etc
Relating the poem 'Emptiness' to a setting where war had occur or just ended. The poet portray his personae as a victim of war who has been bereaved of his livelihood
Stanza one relays his experience of feeling conscious of what is happenning in his enivorment,he had lost consciousness due to sudden sounds of bomb blasts and gunshots.
A formation of skin( line 1) The personae is reduced to nothing but small bits of flesh and blood,he's wounded,bleeding and wearing ragged cloths
"Walking endlessly to find itself" he stands up to realise where he is and situation he finds himself
"Among shores and quiet roads" he finds himself on a street filled with silent dead people lying helplessly on the ground
"Carrying the heart of a heavy soul"
his heart is filled with burden and heavy of the grief of beautiful loved ones he had lost to the war
"With nothing to feel" he's left with no warmth, love and happiness from family and friends
" living a life surreal" everything seems indifferent to him
"No turning point" with everything gone he has nobody to turn to, no house to return to (twisting roads) no friends to point to
"Silence fills the mind" loneliness bestowed upon him from within
"Realization comes to bind" he suddenly realize the gravity if the calamity he's faced with and he's mind went blank from shock
"An emptiness inside"... The big hole left in him can never be filled, Where would he start from? Why did he survive all this? Questions emerged inside him and made him more sad and lonely
Emptiness had struck him like lightning