The Skyscraper Loves Night
The Skyscraper Loves Night - meaning Summary
Urban Longing at Night
The poem personifies a skyscraper as a lover of night. Its lights are likened to ornaments and a "velvet gown" draped over darkness, suggesting tenderness and erotic longing between urban architecture and night. Steel and masonry seek companionship, appearing almost human—dizzy, expectant, and ready to dance. The city structure’s illumination and silence create an intimate, aesthetic image of modernity craving reciprocity from the surrounding darkness.
Read Complete AnalysesONE by one lights of a skyscraper fling their checkering cross work on the velvet gown of night. I believe the skyscraper loves night as a woman and brings her playthings she asks for, brings her a velvet gown, And loves the white of her shoulders hidden under the dark feel of it all. The masonry of steel looks to the night for somebody it loves, He is a little dizzy and almost dances ... waiting ... dark ...
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