Mutability

Mutability: Literally, mutability means, simply, change. But poets over the centuries have used the word to grapple with the more complex reality/crisis of human physical and mental change over time––decline and eventual death and decay––and the more general problem that, simply put, good things can’t last forever. Poets struggle with this issue throughout the centuries. (Mutability is related to mortality, but focused as well on the decline of the living person as well as their eventual death…)