The Land of Happy

The Land of Happy - meaning Summary

Cheerfulness Becomes Boredom

The poem describes an imaginary place where everyone is relentlessly cheerful and entertained. The speaker presents that constant, enforced happiness as monotonous rather than joyful. With wry irony in the final line, the poem flips an idealized vision into a critique of superficial cheerfulness and the dullness of enforced positivity. It emphasizes that happiness loses meaning when it becomes uniform and compulsory.