The speaker's voice is calm but it is not the calm of acceptance of his fate but just the opposite. It is weariness that
that has slowed and diminished his voice. He offers no resistance. His human voice will soon have no energy to
surrender, much less fight back. This is similar to Keats writing " I am half in love with easeful death."
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The speaker's voice is calm but it is not the calm of acceptance of his fate but just the opposite. It is weariness that that has slowed and diminished his voice. He offers no resistance. His human voice will soon have no energy to surrender, much less fight back. This is similar to Keats writing " I am half in love with easeful death."