“Night, street, lamp, drugstore, A dull and meaningless light. Live another quarter-century— Everything will be like this. No way out.”
: Life is depicted as a repetitive, meaningless cycle (e.g., the famous "Night, street, lamp, drugstore..."). “Night, street, lamp, drugstore, A dull and meaningless
: The poems use sharp, cynical irony to describe the "living dead"—people who appear alive but are spiritually hollow. Thematic Pillars meaningless cycle (e.g.