Nightmare town,
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Margaret Taylor
Theme: The poem deals with the problem of loneliness, and says explicitly and directly.
The poet is desperate for contact with other people in this nightmare town, yet she never meets anyone. She is walking in the rain and it is dark, as the street lights are on, and it seems to her that everything is against to her; the litter on the payemnt seems, to move away, from her, as though the houses and no one is even interested in spying on her from behind their curtains. The questioning last line sums up her desperation at being alone in crowd. Anyone who has ever felt lonely in a town or city will identify with this poem's sentiments.