Sentiments And Wilful Desires Comments

In this poem you confront the negative things, mostly emotional, which can spoil our pursuit of happiness. But the language of the poem is so vivid and the mood so upbeat those negative things hardly register. They are defeated by the creativity that spills onto the page and sweeps those negatives into some corner out of sight. But it's important to deal with the enemies of creativity. A poem like this is similar to an inoculation in medicine. It prepares the poetic spirit for a more serious invasion of the blues or other dejected moods.