Central Heating Dissatisfaction Quotes

Again, we see our speaker being just plain dissatisfied. We don't know what's wrong with the wind and the sky—it's not as if our speaker has had enough of rain and clouds, which it would make sense to be sick of. No, he's sick of the wind and sky in general, including gentle breezes on warm day, and the sun poking through after storms. He's not open to happiness, and writes off the wind and sky as parts of the world he's sick of.

This line shows us that our speaker is very well aware that his problems are in his own attitude. Open doors normally symbolize good things—new opportunities, ideas, enlightenment, growth. The speaker knows that all this is available for him, but he's so dissatisfied with where he is now, and where he thinks that open door will take him, that he refuses to walk through it.

The speaker is even unhappy when he's with his lover. Yet the funny thing is that he brings up this memory only to lead himself to the last line of this poem, which reflects on his lover quite fondly. Perhaps dissatisfaction is the speaker's preferred state. He relishes the kind of unhappiness he has when he is together with his lover, sitting on a trunk, watching the world go by with sadness in his eyes. Yeah, sounds like a blast to us, too.