Moonset
Moonset - meaning Summary
Evening’s Quiet Disappearance
The poem depicts the moment of moonset as a quiet, visual transition from vivid, reflected images to bare emptiness. Early lines present layered, art-like scenes—leaves and moonlight mirrored on water—then register a gradual withdrawal: the moon’s farewell dissolves the pictures and leaves the west silent. The closing image captures darkness not as absence but as attentive listening, emphasizing solitude and the end of shared observation.
Read Complete AnalysesLEAVES of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west. Moon sand on the canal doubles the changing pictures. The moon's good-by ends pictures. The west is empty. All else is empty. No moon-talk at all now. Only dark listening to dark.
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