Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

This is for my art history class, I'm supposed to pick a piece of art from the period of Romanticism and do a creative writing piece on it. Any corrections to be made? How do you think it fits the art work I've chosen by Caspar David Friedrich?



Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Man above the sea,
The sea of the forgotten.
This sea of fog which conceals,
A hopeless world beneath.
He is no more important,
Perched above the rocks.
He is no closer to any kind of contentment.
He searched for such lofty heights,
In hopes of a better understanding,
And found that such things are not to be had.
How disappointing,
How enraging.
Things are no clearer now,
Than ever they were before.
Yet there is something to be understood,
Something to be sure of there atop the rocks,
Truly one is alone.
The fog makes this clear to the soul,
Through all that it hides from the eyes.
The search for knowledge is for but one man alone.
All will clear in time,
All will be made known,
But only when alone.
Oh so many questions to be answered,
What will the future hold?
Such secrets remain untold to us mere mortals,
We must like the man up on the rocks,
Wait for the fog to clear.