Cane_-_Dusk_Synthesis

Cane - Dusk Synthesis Dusk and the Great Synthesis Throughout much of the novel Cane, Toomer hints to the reader the idea of dusk and other fleeting imagery. As it stated in Karintha “perfect as dusk as the sun goes down” (Toomer 5) or as described in the Song of the Son, “In time, for though the sun is setting on…” (Toomer 21) and lastly in Georgia Dusk, “The setting sun, to indolent to hold…Passively darkens.” (Toomer 22) What exactly is meant by these types of imagery' They can be explained in several different manners. Perhaps dusk pertains to the idea of changing, for example, from light to dark. On the other hand it may be an attempt to depict vagueness or a lack of clarity during a specific time. Beyond that, it might even be both. To understand what Toomer is trying to entrust to his reader we must delve deeper into his novel. As stated in the Song of the Son, “in time… just before an epoch’s sun declines… to catch thy soul leaving, gone.” (Toomer 21) there was a great time when the sun has shone, but now its time for it to go and leave. At this specific moment, although it toomer, culture, black, one, kabnis, dusk, two, sun, south, very, time, race, novel, new, folk, although, spirituality, loss, jean, great, different, day, both, blacks, within, white, way, tradition, though, shift, separate, reader, ny, now, much