Commentary on the Poem: Knowledge

They say the author is 'dead'. So let me try my hand on the piece to see what meaning I can glean:
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The writer starts straightaway by telling us what the poem is about: the vastness of knowledge and their yearning to gain it.
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Then there is a personification of time which is used to further buttress the futility of trying to know all for one's life is limited to a few moments on this earth compared to the quantum of knowledge there is.
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The writer then gives an analogy of the depth of knowledge by using the word 'glance' which buttresses how insignificant the knowledge seeker's understanding is despite achieving mastery of a field (depicted by 'a thousand'), the persona is 'lost'! 
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Blooming desert is an oxymoron that tries to show that while knowledge can be associated with growth and foliage (which is used a couple of lines later), it is also like a desert where one will find themselves lost in an area where they do not fully comprehend such that all the vastness of the information they come into contact with will be like sand for the one who is thirsty. 
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Of leaves (books); stems and branches (fields, topics and genres)
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The writer then resignedly accepts their fate to continue humbly pursuing the little knowledge they can which is likened to a morsel of food that is just sufficient to sustain them during their short sojourn on this earth! 🙏🙏🙏

Haidarwali 202005070618hrs

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