The poem tries to show the joy that comes with one’s freedom after years of servitude. Through the use of the word “suffering”, the reader is furnished with the information that the driver has gone through hell in the thirty-five years of services, therefore, he deemed it fit to call a big celebration to rejoice his freedom because he is now a “freeman” and also a “king”.

It is even this joy of his freedom that later kills him. The poem seems to say that excess of anything (even happiness) is dangerous.