Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The speaker is a first-person narrator. He is characterized by his plain speech and existential anxiety.
Form and Meter
The poem consists of four unrhymed tercets written in free verse.
Metaphors and Similes
N/A
Alliteration and Assonance
There is alliteration in the A sounds of the line "I am always talking."
Irony
N/A
Genre
Experimental poetry
Setting
The poem takes place in a car
Tone
Colloquial, anxious
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the speaker and the antagonist is "the darkness"
Major Conflict
The major conflict is the speaker's feelings of meaninglessness in the world. He connects this with the symbol of the "darkness."
Climax
The climax of the poem occurs at the end when the speaker's friend tells him he needs to watch where he's going.
Foreshadowing
N/A
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
Hyperbole
N/A
Onomatopoeia
N/A
