Watchman 是警察的前身。中文裏大概是 巡警?還有個意思是 大樓看門人,這裏應該不是。詩人想傳達的是,他遇見的人是一個冰冷的人。這首詩說簡單也簡單,就是一個得了憂鬱症的人在夜裏行走。表達一種孤獨。詩人的兒女妻子都先他而去,傷心孤獨是必然的。不覺得是對社會的呐喊。個見。非常感謝點評。學習到很多。
Watchmen have existed in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally policing.