"king", contrasts with the more somber image of "the people on the pavement" who looked at him. But even the people do not have any clear definition, we are not even sure of who they are -- only that they are of a lower social class. In fact, there is nothing concrete in the poem at all, until the last stanza. Here the words, "calm summer night" at least identify a season and , thereby, supply the reader with the opportunity to fill in an image. Th
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