Tableau at Twilight
Tableau at Twilight - meaning Summary
Awkward Twilight Embarrassment
The poem shows an elderly speaker sitting alone at dusk who is approached by a child with an ice-cream cone. The cone melts and drips onto the speaker’s clothing, prompting comic irritation and embarrassment. The speaker would rather the mess be elsewhere, watches the child leave with the remains, then mutters and resorts to cleaning fluid. The tone blends whimsy with petty annoyance in a compact domestic scene.
Read Complete AnalysesI sit in the dusk. I am all alone. Enter a child and an ice-cream cone. A parent is easily beguiled By sight of this coniferous child. The friendly embers warmer gleam, The cone begins to drip ice cream. Cones are composed of many a vitamin. My lap is not the place to bitamin. Although my raiment is not chinchilla, I flinch to see it become vanilla. Coniferous child, when vanilla melts I’d rather it melted somewhere else. Exit child with remains of cone. I sit in the dusk. I am all alone, Muttering spells like an angry Druid, Alone, in the dusk, with the cleaning fluid.
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