Did I Miss Anything Tom Wayman Summary

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In the poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman, the point of view illustrates the theme that the world doesn’t revolve around anyone, and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Throughout the poem Wayman uses a first person point of view with contrasting stanzas to convey a feeling of sarcasm through the narrator’s, presumably a teacher’s, point of view. There are two sections to the stanzas, Nothing and Everything. In each there is an extreme reply to the question “Did I Miss Anything?”. At the end the two points merge to produce a final conclusion of “but it was one place/and you weren’t here” (31-32). After that it is pretty clear that the author wanted us to know that missing something doesn’t mean that the world stops and waits for us

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