In the author's opinion, this poem opened up a panorama first from the paean for human childhood, then to the middle-age meditation and inquiry, and finally to the loneliness in the declining years.

笔者认为全诗向读者展示的是一幅从对人类童年的讴歌，到中年的沉思与叩问，再到暮年的孤寂与苍凉的全景图。