Happiness
Happiness - meaning Summary
Quiet Reciprocity of Love
The poem presents a quiet, intimate definition of happiness as shared presence rather than measured time or overt emotion. The speaker rejects conventional measures—hours, the sun's cycle, laughter—as the basis of joy, instead locating it in reciprocal gaze, synchronized sorrow, and a silence that binds lovers. Acceptance of life's transience appears when the speaker allows youth and existence to pass, yet finds consolation and meaning in being noticed and steadfastly accompanied. Overall the poem treats happiness as a sober, mutual companionship that endures beyond outward signs and the passage of time.
Read Complete AnalysesHours no are no longer my measure of time, nor is the Sun’s fervent pace; Day is when his eyes meet mine, night is when they newly egress. My joy is not measured by laughter, nor whether his yearning is fainter than my, joy is our mutual silence in sore, when with the same beat our hearts cry. I am not sorry that down the river of life a drop of my existence will also slide, may youth and all depart now, greatly admiring me he stopped beside.
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