 It may be no accident that the Youth in the poem has connections to flower-imagery (the Narcissus being the Wild Daffodil).Magnus Ankarskjö believes that, in Blake's "fallen" world of experience, all love is enchained.So "Ah, Sun-flower", as well as the Clytie myth, (where physical change follows upon a moral one), may be illustrative of divine, innocent love, corrupted and enslaved by human nature - through the experience of possessive jealousy and also, perhaps, defensive self-denial.