At the Twilight
At the Twilight - meaning Summary
Moon as Spiritual Thief
The poem presents a brief mystical encounter in which a moon descends, seizes the speaker, and returns to the sky. That seizure dissolves the speaker’s ordinary self: body is refined into soul, personal identity vanishes, and the ordered cosmos ("nine spheres") and the speaker’s a vessel are submerged. It reads as a compact allegory of spiritual annihilation and transformation—loss of ego and absorption into a larger, numinous reality.
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