Stripes
Stripes - meaning Summary
Loneliness Across City Life
The poem sketches brief urban scenes of solitary figures—a policeman on a bank corner at 3 A.M., another at State and Madison amid daytime bustle, a woman keeping watch over a sick patient, and a glove-seller in a crowded store. Each image emphasizes isolation despite surrounding activity, suggesting modern city life fragments human connection. The repetitions of occupation and time create a steady portrait of quiet loneliness within public roles.
Read Complete AnalysesPOLICEMAN in front of a bank 3 A.M. ... lonely. Policeman State and Madison ... high noon ... mobs ... cars ... parcels ... lonely. Woman in suburbs ... keeping night watch on a sleeping typhoid patient ... only a clock to talk to ... lonesome. Woman selling gloves ... bargain day department store ... furious crazy-work of many hands slipping in and out of gloves ... lonesome.
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