Please Help me!!?

Question

i need someones analysis of this poem and what you believe it means. I'm writing a paper and i have my opinion but i couldnt find a professional one online so please please please help??!?
heres the poem..

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber`s chain has bound me,

Fond Memory brings the light

Of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

Of boyhood`s years,

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone,

Now dimm`d and gone,

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber`s chain has bound me,

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me.


When I remember all

The friends so link`d together

I`ve seen around me fall

Like leaves in wintry weather,

I feel like one

Who treads alone

Some banguet - hall deserted,

Whose lights are fled

Whose garlands dead,

And all but he departed!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber`s chain has bound me,

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me.

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber`s chain has bound me,

Fond Memory brings the light

Of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

Of boyhood`s years,

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone,

Now dimm`d and gone,

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber`s chain has bound me,

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me.


When I remember all

The friends so link`d together

I`ve seen around me fall

Like leaves in wintry weather,

I feel like one

Who treads alone

Some banguet - hall deserted,

Whose lights are fled

Whose garlands dead,

And all but he departed!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber`s chain has bound me,

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me.

Answer 1

Briefly, it would appear that the person is reminiscing about their life, as they are falling asleep.

Answer 2

this person is longing for long lost youth,days gone and they feel loneliness closing around them in thier twilight years...im a poet as well