Morning at the Window is an imagist poem that presents an image of poverty

The title of the poem represents the place which is described in the text and present the first part of the day.

Morning at the Window is an imagist poem that presents an image of poverty. The picture is that of a slum where people lead miserable lives. The speaker is at the window. He may be a visitor of a certain house in the area where poor people live. The images that come to his eyes are - objects corresponding certain ideas and emotions in the poet's and the reader's mind.

The images in the poem correlate with the idea of poverty and feelings of sympathy. But the poem only presents them just the objective image, rather than romantically expressing his feelings and emotions. There is also a balance between feelings and ideas in the sense that the image arouses not only feelings in the reader but also provokes thoughts and ideas.

The poem is a set of striking images of poverty; the poet says nothing but shows them. The poor people are ratting breakfast plates early in the morning. Sun or shower, frost or fog, they have to set out early and the speaker says that he is aware of the condition of the households' minds and souls. Such housemaids are appearing one after another at the city gate. Maybe they come from villages. They have no identity, dignity and meaningful life. They are 'despondent', or extremely sad.

The speaker seems to go along, or else look further away waves of "brown" fog which come up to him. This is perhaps because the city air is so polluted. Twisted faces of depressed people pass by. A passerby has tears in the eyes . The focus is on poor servant girls whose souls themselves are "damp" .The poet evokes our emotion without telling his emotions.

Eliot asserted that poetry must present 'objective correlatives' or objects and events that will correspond to certain emotions in the reader's experience. The poet need not express his personal emotion. This idea of poetry is anti-romantic. For instance, when we encounter objective images of poverty, we understand it .It's symbolic meaning and impressionistic viewpoint are also other important features of the poem. The theme of the poem "Morning at the Window" is poverty. The poem presents a very human picture of poor people in the city slum. The poem presents a set of typical images that suggest poverty, depression, misery and squalor in the slums (poor and dirty areas of the cities) where the poor live. The poet also mentions the state of the souls of the housemaids. So the poem thematically includes the issues of poverty, depression and squalor in the lives of poor people in the city.Perhaps more terrible than poverty is the problem of depression and distress with which the poor people in the pace live their lives. The damp souls of housemaids, the twisted face of a passerby, the tears in the eyes of a girl who is also wearing a muddy skirt, and the aimless smile of a person who tries and fails to smile are all indicators of sadness and frustration as well as poverty. Poor people can sometimes be happy, as in tribal villages. But here the problem of unhappiness seems to be even more terrible. Also the purpose of the poem is that the author want to show us how many people live and how they feel.