"The Lamentations of the Old Pensioner" talks about how time has transformed the elderly man. He suggests that once he "talked of love and politics" but that now he only thinks about Time. Also, he says that women don't pay attention to him any more and that the loves of his life are still engraved in his memory. He despises Time and what it has done to him
"Futility" functions as an elegy for a dead soldier. The poet urges the sun to gave him back to life.I stresses the brevity of life, the impotence human beings feel when confronted to Death
"To An actress" is a love poem that stresses the rebirth that comes with love. It shows how different the lover feels now that he has met her. It presents love as the spring of a new life, a new man
"I like my body when it is your" is a poem about passion. it describes the electricity of the bodies, the vibrant moves, the craving desires, the thrill of the flesh.