Levine's Another Poem Lights, I Have Seen Before

Levine’s another poem “Lights, I Have Seen Before” probes social isolation and social terror with tremendous eloquence. It opens with daybreak and closes at dusk, and firmly locate at urban life. The children are “off somewhere,” the speaker is isolated, the television and refrigerator provide only muffled and inhumane- perhaps even deathly sound: I hear only the buzz of current in the TV and the refrigerator groaning against the coming day. (3-8)
This sound makes him remembers the sound of factory, his despondency or the feeling of depression is transposed onto domestic appliances such as the fridge, seen “groaning” in response to the break of day. This poem registers the sterility of the speaker’s suburban life and his vulnerability