My Wise Friend Comments

You identified this poem by the single word FRIENDSHIP which strikes me as accurate but not obvious. The speaker's gratitude is muted because he is a private person. Still to acknowledge his gratitude he reveals more than has previously. For example, angst and thought are certainly differentiated, angst being feeling-oriented and thought reasoning-oriented. Both, however, lift the veil over human experience and reveal more sadness. Gratitude expressed toward a sensitive friend is the best thing in this poem, In the last stanza the speaker adds nothing to his argument, he just wants to live a while longer in the atmosphere his friend creates.