Depict the joy expressed in ‘ah sunflower’

The Sunflower more closely represents human aspirations, with its face always looking toward the sun. That it follows the sun’s progress from morning to evening shows that human aspirations must eventually end in death, symbolized by night in many of Blake’s poems. The youth and virgin both have unfulfilled desires to which they seek satiation in the sunset, suggesting that their longings may be fulfilled in the next life.