Alone

      I really liked the rythm of this poem; I enjoyed the sound of it.  But I found the content to be pretty straight forward and basic; although, straight foward is not necissarly bad.  He is writing about being different, thinking different, seeing different then all others...he was the odd one out.
     My favorite section of the poem was "And all I lov'd--I loved alone--"  I think this line perfectly sums up all his feelings of being different and alone.  His brain is obvioulsy wired differently then most others so he loves other things and sees things differently.  This line also points out the lonelyness of it all.  It's sad to love something alone.  I feel bad for him, to be so alone in what he does.
     The poem goes on to create a feeling a darkness.  "Of a demon in my view--"  It starts just a lonely boy, being inherently different then others...and it creates an evil for him.
     What I don't get is how it's a "mystery which binds" him still.  Maybe he just doesn't understand why he was treated as a such an outsider.  Or maybe why he had to be so different and dark, why he couldn't just be simple and happy with the other children.
     Maybe I would like this poem more if I could connect to it a little more.  I have my moments, but generaly, I'm not an outsider.  I'm not too dark.  And I have friends.  I'm not a super lonely person.