I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea. In Heaven-Haven, Hopkins not only prays for a day when he can be free of the physical stresses of the world, but also the emotional pains.
Life is filled with turbulent storms of anger and despair.
Life to Hopkins is a sea. One moment a man is rich and happy and the next fate has thrown him a curveball and sent him to the poorhouse. There is no escaping the acrid aspects of life, so Hopkins turns to death. But well to say and so to mean, That sweet accord is seldom seen. Wyatt is sharply criticizing society.