Question

why does the narrator call the minute 'unforgiving'​

Answer 1

Explanation:

What he means by the "unforgiving minute" is time or life itself. If you can put the same unrelenting energy into it that you would put into a sixty second run, you can have "the earth." In other words, he is saying it is important to live your life fully and not hold back.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

In the poem, "the unforgiving minute" is a metaphor for the amount of time people have to live. That minute, the total time people have to live, is unforgiving because time doesn't give anyone a second chance. Once a second (60 seconds in a minute) passes, it is gone forever.