The Dial Tone is about a technological entity that has become like eternity, or existence, with its perpetual presence. In a way it outlives its creators. Humans may have created it, but they do not even interrupt it or alter it by their use of the phone:
"I do not doubt that if you gave it hours
and then lost patience, it would be the same
After you left that it was before you came."
Obviously, to Nemerov it's a metaphor for something far greater. Poets are meant to see the familiar in unfamiliar ways.
"I do not doubt that if you gave it hours
and then lost patience, it would be the same
After you left that it was before you came."
Obviously, to Nemerov it's a metaphor for something far greater. Poets are meant to see the familiar in unfamiliar ways.
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