Reading this poem brings with it many emotions. The strongest I found was a sense of melancholy, sadness and loneliness, which in turn is the theme I found most obvious. With these emotions came a sense of beauty. Lines 13-14 of the poem read "With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note ...
Yes, it is very much the function of arts to dwell on the otherwise hidden aspects of human nature, Our instinctive urge for rhythm, right since the dawn of civilization, is so obvious that we take it for granted rarely claiming it to be a special talent. ...