What is the main conflict in The Boy by Marilyn Hacker?

Hacker wrote the poem in response to a book review by Robyn Selman in the Village Voice of poem collections by Rafael Campo and Rachel Weztsteon. In the review, Selman describes the position of the young male poet as someone who sits at a window and looks out at the world and the position of the young female poet as someone who examines the room in which she sits—the room of the self.