What is the theme in Chocolates by Louis Simpson?

Art and experience are themes in the book. "Chocolates" is an example of mimetic verse, whose chief aim is to imitate reality and give pleasure to the reader. Aristotle defined poetry as an imitation of human actions, but historically critics have argued over what actions were worth representing, with earlier critics claiming that only the actions of "great men" were worthy of poetry. With the nineteenth century, however, and the advent of Romantic poetry, the poet's feelings and imagination became the stuff of representation, and language a tool by which human beings could more deeply experience the world.