The Sun Kept Stooping Stooping
poem 152
The Sun Kept Stooping Stooping - meaning Summary
Sun as Invading Army
The poem personifies the setting sun as an advancing force whose light transforms the landscape and the speaker’nd interior room. Daylight thickens on the windowpane until it resembles a Tyrian host, evoking military images and stirring a sudden, almost remembered impulse to charge. The speaker reacts physically and imaginatively but finds no one to engage, leaving a tension between the vivid external spectacle and an inward, solitary response.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Sun kept stooping stooping low! The Hills to meet him rose! On his side, what Transaction! On their side, what Repose! Deeper and deeper grew the stain Upon the window pane Thicker and thicker stood the feet Until the Tyrian Was crowded dense with Armies So gay, so Brigadier That I felt martial stirrings Who once the Cockade wore Charged from my chimney corner But Nobody was there!
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