Dreams in the Dusk

Dreams in the Dusk - meaning Summary

Evening's Small, Persistent Grief

Sandburg’s poem presents dusk as a time when daytime ends and memories return as dreams. These are not hopeful visions but recalled images of loss: days gone, tears felt, and broken hopes. The closing lines shift the observation into intimate address, suggesting that evening often brings private sorrow. The poem compresses mood and theme into a brief, elegiac meditation on memory, regret, and the quiet persistence of grief.