Tragic & beautiful, just as his son's life and how he must have felt about his son and their too short lives together...as an elegy it joins the best of them like Lycidas and In Memorium. A great tumbling of associations ignited by the sight of his son at rest as if his son's life (and his own) are passing before his eyes, evocative of Gabriel's way of being, yet rendered with the poetic control and narrative arc that the poet/father cannot help but bring to the wildness of the son and the tumult of the tragedy.