First at all, it is a poem based on George Orwell's novel 1984 which reveals his feelings about the reality seen by him as slavery, war, ignorance, injustice and all the horrible things that are leading humanity in a terrible path. He is specificly outlining the role of the government, which is, according to him, an entity that performs a thoughtcrime controlling over every action and thought of people from Oceanía exactly as it was in the Orwell's novel and making him feel death even if he is alife.