“Meeting at Night” is a poem about love. It makes, one might say, a number of statements about love: being in love is a sweet and exciting experience; when one is in love everything seems beautiful, and the most trivial things become significant when one is in love one’s sweetheart seems the most important thing in the world. But the poet actually tells us none of these things directly. He does not even use the word love in his poem. His business is to communicate experience, not information. Second, he describes the lover’s journey so vividly in terms of sense impressions that the reader virtually sees and hears what the lover saw and heard and seems to share his anticipation and excitement.