Evening Waterfall
Evening Waterfall - meaning Summary
Longing in Twilight Sound
This short lyric registers a brief, aching address to an absent figure through evening sound. Sandburg frames longing with repeated questions and layered bird imagery: crows, warblers and feathers combine to make a valley of “sleepy-songs.” The landscape’s noises become a surrogate voice and a cause of loneliness, turning natural detail into emotional atmosphere and suggesting loss, departure, and an unresolved call toward someone who has gone.
Read Complete AnalysesWhat is the name you called me?-- And why did you go so soon? The crows lift their caws on the wind, And the wind changed and was lonely. The warblers cry their sleepy-songs Across the valley gloaming, Across the cattle-horns of early stars. Feathers and people in the crotch of a treetop Throw an evening waterfall of sleepy-songs. What is the name you called me?-- And why did you go so soon?
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