Dusk

Dusk - meaning Summary

Quiet Surrender at Dusk

The poem presents a speaker who experiences a gentle, almost sensual decline at day’s end. Imagery of a heart "melting," veins as slow oil, and life fleeing "hushed and gentle like the gazelle" conveys quiet resignation and fragile beauty. It registers acceptance rather than panic: a peaceful passing of vitality, evoked through soft, tactile metaphors that link bodily sensation to the calm, luminous mood of dusk.