It's really annoying how you guys just assume that the poem is addressed to a man.  He could have intended ambiguous gender, so it's very presumptuous to take the view that just because a few stodgy old academics want to paint this as gay, we all have to jump on the bandwagon and confirm it.  Also where in the poem does it say that the subject is young?  Even if we accept that it is directed at a male, why not an older male?  Shame on you! This is bad encyclopedia writing!