The present poem is about the theme
of love. The central idea of this poem is love in fantasy, or in dream is more
perfect and fulfilling than love in reality. Love in reality, makes both the
persons aware of differences and the happiness disappear. In the world of the
fantasy, the beloved is as pr desire of lover without differences and that’s
why the lover enjoys that dream more than real company of his beloved.
Poem makes clear that her impression is
carved on his heart and it is give value to his heart, the lover gives example
of the King and the coin,
‘As Kings do coins, to which their
stamps impart’
The way
king’s image gives value to the coin, her image on his heart gives value to his
heart. Lover’s great heart is medal which he would like to give to her. After
she is gone, lover experience her presence in his fantasy/dream that give him
more joy than her real presence. It is during his fantasy that the lover can
escape from his pain because the pain
is the real.
The Lover knows that after remaining in
the dream, he will have to come back to the world of reality but he would not
repent for remaining in that dream because it gives him more joy than reality.
He knows the truth of life.
‘Alas, true joys at
best are dream enough…’
This line of the lover expresses two
meanings 1) true joy is only a dream and 2) person can experience true joy only
in a dream. The Lover enjoys presence not so much as he enjoys her absence. The
lover would like to be a mad person with a heart filled with love. He does not
want to be an idiot without heart and her love.
The overall idea of this poem is that joy
in reality is different from joy in Dream. The lover prefers fantasy to her
presence for the real joy of love.
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