Love & Fame & Death
Love & Fame & Death - meaning Summary
Ordinary Menace, Sudden Silence
The speaker describes a persistent, watchful presence outside the window that is at once mundane and menacing. Tension builds through observation until a sudden, almost dismissive action—slamming the screen with a newspaper—produces a distant scream and the intruder 92s departure. The poem closes with a reflexive line about how to finish: by becoming quiet. It compresses anxiety and an abrupt resolution into a short, direct moment.
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