Gwendolyn Brooks

An Evening

An Evening - meaning Summary

Love Ended at Dusk

The poem uses evening and sunset imagery to portray the quiet ending of a relationship or love. Sparse, elegiac lines compress a day’s close into a final, mournful moment. Distant hills and a lone evening star underscore emotional remoteness, while the short concluding lines turn natural decline into personal loss. The overall tone is restrained grief: acceptance of an ending with little spectacle or overt lamentation.

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A sunset's mounded cloud; A diamond evening-star; Sad blue hills afar; Love in his shroud. Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a summer day; Sweet Love dead.

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