Analysis in Ekphrastic Poetry Format: Hotel Room, Painting by Edward Hopper

Hotel Room – 1931

Tired of day and night, 

swooning for each other, 

chasing each other’s rays, like a dog with its tail. 

Abandoned suitcases scattered the floor, 

two shoes lay like dead fish, 

a scarf carelessly draped upon the gaunt chair. 

Stripped to the corset, 

a women’s salmon pink contrasts the sea of blue and green surrounding her, 

yellow fish, green seaweed, brown sand, white shells, and blue ocean, 

her warm hue battles the frost of the room. 

She sinks into the bed, 

a flickering overhead bulb her light source, 

three pages into her book, 

her bobbing head drifts off to sleep, 

letting the coldness of the room engulf her. 

Life freezes, 

may the night never end.