Wish You Were Here <Tab/>"Wish You Were Here" by Incubus is a lyric poem. The poem is basically about a person who is lying on a beach and wishing he could share the experience with someone else. The speaker most likely wants to share it with a lover that they have lost in the past, weather by death or breaking up. He (the speaker) wants to be back with that …showed first 75 words of 848 total…

…showed last 75 words of 848 total…The denotative and connotative meanings of the poem are similar. As the reader you figure out that it is a lover he is wishing would come back. "And in this moment I am happy/Happy/I wish you were here" (lines 4, 5, and 6). He is truly happy and wishes that he could share it with one special person. The major theme of the poem is you have to be able to move on to be happy.