Night Movement-new York
Night Movement-new York - meaning Summary
City Alive After Dark
The poem portrays New York at night as alive and intimate rather than asleep. Sandburg emphasizes the cooling sea-winds, skyline lights, and distant trains that bring people seeking work and communication. Nighttime activity is shown through dancers, singers, sailors and soldiers, arguing that the city’s life continues beyond daytime bustle. The recurring image of the sea-winds embracing the city gives a unifying, quietly protective tone to the nocturnal scene.
Read Complete AnalysesIN the night, when the sea-winds take the city in their arms, And cool the loud streets that kept their dust noon and afternoon; In the night, when the sea-birds call to the lights of the city, The lights that cut on the skyline their name of a city; In the night, when the trains and wagons start from a long way off For the city where the people ask bread and want letters; In the night the city lives too-the day is not all. In the night there are dancers dancing and singers singing, And the sailors and soldiers look for numbers on doors. In the night the sea-winds take the city in their arms.
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