Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window
Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window - meaning Summary
Evening Erases the Day
The poem describes a sunset seen from an Omaha hotel window as a transition that erases the day and reduces human concerns to smallness. Sand and light imagery mark the passing of time; the gloaming and the wheel of constellations suggest continuity between cities and a larger cosmos. The speaker registers both a local, bitter dusk and the consoling, impersonal motion of stars that render daily talk insignificant.
Read Complete AnalysesInto the blue river hills The red sun runners go And the long sand changes And to-day is a goner And to-day is not worth haggling over. Here in Omaha The gloaming is bitter As in Chicago Or Kenosha. The long sand changes. To-day is a goner. Time knocks in another brass nail. Another yellow plunger shoots the dark. Constellations Wheeling over Omaha As in Chicago Or Kenosha. The long sand is gone and all the talk is stars. They circle in a dome over Nebraska.
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