The speaker in this poem has very complex emotions towards desire. The author uses many metaphors to express the speaker's emotions. "Dregs of scattered thoughts" is what he compares to desire. This quote is what first sets the tone of the poem. The speaker sees desire as hopeless, useless scattered thoughts. Desire is unimportant and bad.
The speaker's thoughts of desire is keeping him up at night. Repetition is used to express his thoughts of desire. The thoughts of desire have been with him too long. Snap horses is also used to express the vanity he feels towards desire. He wants to get rid of his thoughts of desire. He desires to kill desire.
The author's use of diction and imagery play a role on how the speaker feels about desire. He uses words such as band, cradle, and web. Band can symbolize the coming together of all of his thoughts of desire. His mind cradles these thoughts without a care in the world. Web how's the complexity of the meaning of the word desire but also the speaker's emotion towards it.
The speaker hates desire so much he wants to get ride of it. He annoy get any thoughts of desire out of his mind. He will always have desire.
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