It primarily deals with the theme of love in light of depiction of deception and tenacious moral convictions. Adherence to principles may result in bitter loneliness, as symbolized by the loneness of rocks in the dusk. Unmindful of the unpleasant outcomes, however, a person of moral integrity would refuse to compromise, as Restraint , one of the poems, says: My passions flowed like a slender stream, sieved by conviction. Your charm certainly shook me as a quake shakes a house: too feeble to bring it down!