Charles G.D.

Roberts -The Aim

The poem underlines the theme of failed love, the failure of two people, the dreams that
could not come true. The lyrics send thoughts of melancholy and sadness. The darkness is not
missing either, so that he paints the emotional state that the poet has in relation to failed love.
Besides this, the text also refers to Divinity, to a comparison between love and divinity. "But
count the reach of my desire/ Let this be something in Thy sight:" I think in these lines, the
lyrical epic is talking about the desires of the soul and how this can sometimes be seen as a sin in
the eyes of the divine. Lazy darkness is the place in the mind where man tends to fall into sin for
unfulfilled love. The lover is seen through his eyes as an instant goal: "O Thou who loves not
alone / The swift succes, the instant goal, / But hast a lenient eye to mark". Loneliness is the
most visible and predominant point in the poem, so it seems that the poet was abandoned by his
lover, conveying a state in which a wounded soul is. At the same time, through the lines "I have
not l, in the slothful dark/ Forgot the Vision and the Height/ Neither my body nor my soul /To
earth's low ease will yield consent", the poet sheds light on death, through the simple fact that
death he will get rid of suffering, because death is the only thing through which he can escape
and detach himself from everything that is around him. "I have not, in the slothful dark,"/.
Forgot the Vision and the Height." I think this verse, signifies the silence of death, when the soul
leaves the body, the body remains in the earth in peace, in darkness without negative thoughts.
Unfulfilled love is erased and the soul is freed from desires.