Hopeful Desires Comments

WOW! This poem says it all! It has both steel-eyed realism with no false sentimentality and it has visionary faith in the persistence of positive emotions - and then you show the cycle tumbling through our lives again. It's that third factor - the cycle repeating itself - that gives substance to your overview of things. And you found for the closing stanza the ideal language to bring the poem to closure - but we know: the cycle of desires and disappointments, then again and again, on and on it will go.