Analyze the setting, stylistic devices, specific lines, and themes in the provided poem excerpt.

a) The setting of the poem is an urban environment or city, characterized by "high rise walls." The time of day is evening or night, indicated by "closing the day," "dying embers," "Twilight girls," and "vanishing darkness."

b) One stylistic device used in the poem is Imagery.
An example is "Horizon hidden by the high rise walls," which creates a visual picture of the city's dense architecture.

c)

i) "And the drunks / Completing the pudding" means that the intoxicated individuals are finishing their night's activities or adding the final, often messy or chaotic, touch to the evening's events.

ii) "Twilight girls / Assessing their gains, counting their losses" refers to prostitutes or women engaged in illicit night activities, evaluating their earnings and any negative consequences or missed opportunities from their work.

iii) "Clutching at the vanishing darkness" means that people are desperately trying to hold onto the cover of night or the opportunities it provides, perhaps because their activities are illicit or they wish to avoid the exposure of daylight.

iv) "Stuffed" in "Complete with chickens and stuffed bags" means the bags are full or packed tightly with belongings, indicating the travelers are carrying many possessions.

d) Two themes the poet addresses are:

• Urban Nightlife and its Characters: The poem vividly portrays the activities and individuals who emerge in the city after dark, highlighting a different side of urban existence.
• Marginalization and Transience: It focuses on figures like "Twilight girls" and "drunks," who often operate on the fringes of society, and emphasizes the temporary nature of their presence or control over the city ("For the time being").

e) The mood of the poem is observational, somber, and somewhat melancholy. It presents a realistic, almost detached, view of the city's nocturnal activities and its inhabitants, with a sense of things fading or coming to an end.

f) An appropriate title for this poem would be "Shadows of the City." This title is fitting because it captures the essence of the poem, which explores the hidden, often illicit, and transient activities and characters that emerge under the cover of night in an urban setting.

g) The different kinds of people mentioned in the poem are:

• Watchmen
• Twilight girls
• Night revelers
• Travellers from upcountry
• The drunks