Daylight reflects a moment of mourning—not a death, in this case, but a romance, during the period of incomprehension which marks a relationship’s demise. The poem’s stunned narrator confronts the reality that “Our love might end,” as an infinite, infallible love reveals itself to be fallible and finite.
Making a mark upon the world can be seen as an act of hubris or a frank recognition of the limits of unique inscription, depending upon one’s philosophical inclinations. Simon Hantaï (1922–2008) realized the latter in his painting after having disproven to himself the moral efficacy of the former.
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