Morning at the Window
Morning at the Window - meaning Summary
Urban Morning, Alienated Glimpses
The speaker looks out a window at an early urban morning and registers small, dislocated scenes: basement kitchens, housemaids at gates, fog lifting “twisted faces” and a passer-by’s fleeting smile. The poem compresses ordinary, sordid details into a single, detached impression of city life, emphasizing anonymity, quiet loneliness, and the ephemeral quality of human expression amid grey, routine surroundings.
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