¶ … Evening," Mohan Singh celebrates the mystery of erotic love. Mohan Singh communicates the themes of life and love using symbolism, diction, and imagery. There are two "characters" in Singh's "Evening," that of Evening, and that of the horse. The Evening has a female connotation, and the horse has a male connotation, as the horse is described with masculine pronouns like "his," whereas Evening is described with feminine pronouns like "her." Singh uses sexual symbolism to explore the mysteries of erotic love as the union of male and female. Sexual imagery pervades the poem. For example, the first line introduces the horse as "panting" as he "reaches the shores of evening." The imagery suggests the heavy breathing, the panting, that occurs during sex, and the "shores of evening" symbolize the woman's moist sexuality. Imagery related to moistness continues, as the horse "throws red foam from his mouth," and "his vermillion mane" is "wet with perspiration." The color...

In the second stanza, the word "pricked" is used to allude to the male sexual organ. The word "comes" starts off the second stanza: "The mellow-colored Evening comes / And places her hand between his pricked ears." Evening "places her hand between his pricked ears" as a sensual display of love and affection, which followed by further phallic imagery of "her long fingers" that "feel the hot breath from his nostrils / And take the bridle from his mouth."
Imagery suggests that erotic union is a process whereby wild, untamed sexual energy is subdued and perfected. Singh further suggests a gender binary, in which the male is associated with unbridled sexual passion, whereas the female is associated with gentleness…