The article examines the intertextual relations between the Swedish author Sonja Åkesson's poem "Kvällspromenad" (Evening Walk), published in 1959, and the Swedish author Ragnar Thoursie's poem "Sundbybergs-prologen" (The Sundbyberg Prologue) (1952). The aim is to demonstrate how "Kvällspromenad" has a deep and polemic relation to "Sundbybergs-prologen". The comparison between the two poems is made by using Manfred Pfister's six criteria for analyzing intertextual relations: reference, communication, autoreflexion, structure, selection and dialogue.

The analysis shows that Åkesson gives a completely different view of modern post-war Sweden in her poem compared to the intertext. Instead of the male worker i Thoursie's poem, Åkesson lets a lonely and alienated woman walk around in the same modern suburbs and in a society where she seems homeless. The many intertxtual relations between "Kvällspromenad" and its intertext, can be seen on a thematic as well as a metaphorical level.