Twilight
Twilight - meaning Summary
Evening as Gentle Reconciliation
The poem personifies Day and Night as lovers in a cyclical chase: Day pursues Night across dawn and day, while Night flees toward the west. At sunset the exhausted Day falls and Night, moved with pity, returns crowned with stars to gently "kiss the dying Day." The poem meditates on transition, mutual compassion, and the tender reciprocity that completes the daily passage from light to darkness.
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