Reaction to Toads Revisited

The poem shows how the people that don't work 'walk around in the park' and are 'stupid or weak'. The persona considers them to be 'failures' who just sit about, 'hearing the hours chime' - suggesting that they just while away the hours and don't have anything worth while in their lives to do. However, in though the persona recognises that this lifestyle 'should feel better than work', it doesn't suit him, and he prefers to be at work as it gives him something to do. In the last stanza we see him embrace his work, much like a friend - 'give me your arm old toad; Help me down Cemetery Road' suggesting that he wants work to accompany him to his death.