Raymond Carver is best known as a novelist, but in addition, he is also a poet. He not only wrote many excellent short stories, but also wrote many poems. This poem "The Best Time of the Day" is one of the very warm and quiet poems. In addition to the complexity of our lives, there are also these quiet and gentle moments that we need to feel carefully.
Cool summer night.
The windows are open.
The light is on.
Fruits are in the bowl.
Your head is on my shoulder.
These are the most enjoyable moments of the day.
Next, of course,
are those early morning hours. Also
It’s near lunch.
And the afternoon, and the
twilight hours.
But I do love
These summer nights.
Even more than, I think,
those other moments.
The day's work is done.
No one can influence us at this time.
Or forever.
About the poet:
Raymond Carver (1938-1988), a famous contemporary American short story writer and poet, was born on May 25, 1938 in Clark, Oregon. Skane Township, died of lung cancer on August 2, 1988. After graduating from high school, he supported his family, made a living, and studied writing in his spare time. Carver's life works are mainly short stories and poems, as well as some prose. He is known as "the most important American novelist in the second half of the twentieth century" and the master of "minimalism" in the novel world. He is "the most influential short story writer in the United States after Hemingway." The London Times called him "America's Chekhov" after his death. He is a rare observer and expresser of "hard times" in the American literary world, and is known as the founder of the "new novel".
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