The poem is concerned mainly with the fact that "city planning" is a gloomy process that leaves its in-habitants stripped of their humanity. They become devoid of feelings or emotions, essential human attributes for example pedantic rows, sanitary trees, levelness of surface, No shouting here.
The poet recalls her driving in the streets of Canada on an August Sunday and she was disturbed at the sight of the city. The building were all identical, arranged like mathematical units, trees planted in proper alignment, the roads all levelled rebuking the dent of the car. All this was so monotonous and routined that people must be losing their saneness as they got used to this sight. Monotony had spread so deeply that even colours on walls seemed like bruises. The poet also describes the upcoming of such a time when all the structured will become clay seas and the competitiveness among the city planners would take back seat. All the structures were designed without any consideration of the future. Thus gloom persisted everywhere in the cities and blocked the minds of people living there.
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