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What does the Dark Hour poem by William Davies mean?

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W H Davies suffered all his life from a condition which these days we would recognise as clinical depression.

In The Dark Hour he explains that even though he ought to be happy, he is nonetheless sad - and does not know why.

Many of W H Davies' poems are similarly depressive - even his most famous piece 'Leisure' has a dark undertow to it.

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