Bicentennial

Bicentennial- the two-hundredth anniversary of a significant event.

The first stanza tells us that the author will take us back to a time or event step by step, analyzing every detail along the way. I find it interesting that the authors stops one stanza in mid sentence and continues it starting the next stanza. For example he stops the third stanza saying "where meaning would be if only they" and then in the fourth stanza he continues "could find the exact site in Paris. I wonder if there is a specific reason that he wrote his poem in this format. The poem sounds more like a story, but just written in poem style with very specific thinking points. 

Stanza 5:3 The first two lines is interesting to me because as the coin goes into the drawer the narrator also moves into his mind, its sort of like moving deeper and deeper into his story or event that he is referring to. The next line where the narrator talks about a wheel spinning and spinning without going anywhere and whether we watch it or not it just keeps spinning, reminds me of life itself. Whether we realize it or not our life keeps going on and moving along.