Wadsworth Longfellow's work "In Day is Done", seeks serenity by desiring a poem to escape one's reality after a stressful day. They want to hear the writer's words to feel calm and walk away. As previously mentioned, “sublimity is to be sought only in the mind of the judge, not in the object of nature” (436). This text presents the sublimity of the narrator known as the subject who indirectly seeks the object of the poem. They wanted to escape the restlessness and let themselves be overwhelmed by "some simple and heartfelt lay person" (line