the writer changes the tone of the story when they say “then all is gone” from positive to negative mood.
The key ideas being presented are the lively-ness of the day to the departure of the sun then the grim loneliness of the night. The poem takes place in a rural place like a town we know this because it has herds of sheep but also tales of smogged ashes. The poet uses techniques such as personification and metaphors to add life to the day and darkness to the night. They use the city sky as a metaphor for a book as it is telling a story the clouds being “swooning pufferfish swept into awaiting creatures” the story changes tone at the short sentence ‘then all is gone”. Then the poet moves into darker metaphors as the life vanishes and the creatures depart with using “dusks skeletons” and “another nights graveyard” Then to signify all life is gone out of the sky the poet uses the metaphor “a raging battle succumbs to the sun’s defeat. Finally all that is left is the moon the commander of the night and watcher of the skys. This poem ties back to real life as the stories of our lives are filled with lots of life then the battle of the sky is the end of those stories as we go to sleep and all that is left is the moon. The writers purpose is blah blah blah.