Poem Explication: "Red Shift"

In the poem “Red Shift” Ted Berrigan suggests that life changes as the speaker ages and so do his emotions. The emotions are established by the title which explains change that has happened to the speaker through out the poem. 

The emotions start with the title “Red Shift” red meaning love and anger, “Red shift” also meaning the scientific term immeasurable. He can be describing how love can be immeasurable and how love can change through out experience as said in the poem “Not that pretty girl, who was going to have to go...” 

The tone also changes as the poem’s sections change to more depression tone, but it had to do also with weather he is in “February, fierce arabesque on the way to tree in winter streetscape..” then he was thinking about his past what has happened such as political & love life. I also think the poem has to do something with “red scare” that caused him to be depressed, “who would have thought that I’d be here, nothing wrapped up, nothing buried, everything love, hundred of the. Money, marriage ethics, a politics of grace...” He also can’t think about happy thoughts either “There’s a song California Dreaming, but I wont do that” which suppose to be a cheerful song.

Ted Berrigan suggests that life changes as the speaker ages and so do his emotions. The speaker also wants to be remembered when he dies “I will never go away & you will never escape from me...” The whole Idea of the poem was that the speaker repeated his past what he went through and going through till now. Life changes as it goes it can be for the better or for the worse like shown in the poem.