On New Year's Eve, the traditional custom is that families get together. "When you stay awake, you call it guarding the age" (Local Customs). The title "New Year's Eve" should have aroused the author's fond memories of this traditional festival, but the New Year's Eve in this poem is a different scene.
The beginning of the poem is the word "hotel", which seems dull, but it can not be ignored, and the feelings of the whole poem are born from this. It's a New Year's Eve, and the poet looks at the brightly lit houses outside and gathers together, but he is