Great Regulars: At the end of "The Sorrow of Love",

the man and his cry are re-framed. No longer obliterated, they are "composed", in the pictorial sense of being held together, and perhaps somewhat pacified. Painful experience has redeemed shallow aestheticism. "The Sorrow of Love" proclaims that the young poet has found one of his major themes, and begun the transformation of failed relationship into imaginative triumph.

[by W.B. Yeats]

The Sorrow of Love

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by W.B. Yeats

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