This extraordinary work deals with the human condition and its dialogue of what could be the understanding of love. The poet uses modern musical notation as an inventive way to keep the reader emotionally engaged. For example there is a sign to the reader to flutter over a word, or the symbol ' >' over a word means accent letter, word or syllable or gesture forcing us to 'see' the word differently and so alter our thoughts via feelings. Some fifty notations are used to aid this along and to express the original emotional experience (the 'erlebnis') which gave rise to the poem.