is characteristically absent, implied only by its observations in the first stanza--"new", "expectant", "happily pursued"--perceptions that give way, in the second stanza, to tender empathy with those of the unspecified "you"--"thin-shadowed", "anxious", "dark". But the ability to understand another's pain only increases the poet's own. All he can do is look, feel, and tell the truth.[by Ian Hamilton]
Night Walk
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Night Walk
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