Wordsworth is sorry for the loss of childhood which he believes
was surrounded by innocence and mystery. He could see in nature all around him
a celestial quality. He remembers a period of childhood where everything was
fresh and beautiful and how he has lost his faculty of seeing beauty and
mystery in nature.
Stanza 1 – His dream is of this paradisial state from which
he has come. He has lost this ability of seeing things in celestial quality and
God in every ordinary thing which he thinks a child still retains.
Stanza 2 – He believes that nature is unchanging in its
beauty. There will always be radiance and star look beautiful, but the only
thing is that the poet’s perception of it has changed. The glory has
disappeared. He appreciates beauty with regard to things in nature, but he
cannot see the celestial light.
Stanza 3 – Labor – small drum; one cataract – waterfall. It
is spring time. nature is joyful, lively and gay.
Stanza 4 – Coronal – Garland of flowers. The joy that he
feels is forced. It does not come naturally or easily to him as it once did
when he was a child. The poet feels that there is something wrong with him
because he cannot participate wholeheartedly in the joy of nature. (Pansies are
associated with thoughts).
Stanza 5 – This forgetting is the place from where we come from
i.e., heaven. Soul comes from God. As we grow old, we move away from the light
of God to adulthood.
Stanza 6 – Earth is personified as a foster mother and the
child is being compensated for what is lost. The earthly pleasures and pursuits
all tend to make us forget our former glorious state.
Stanza 7 – The child has earthly parents and they equip the
child to face problems of life, worldly events and pursuits occupy man’s time
and energies. He soon busies himself in continually imitating the action and
pursuits of others and thereby he forgets his heavenly home.
Stanza 8 – The external appearance does not show how immense
the soul is and the great potential the soul has.
Stanza 9 – Soul is immense. Child opens peoples’ eyes to
reality of God around them. Child’s mind is constantly in touch with God. Man is
constantly in search of though with such things. He need not search it. A grown
up man’s mind is dark. He does not know the truth. Freight – soul. Frost can
cause harm and destruction. Worries of the world almost frost you. Embers –
ashes. In the embers there are tiny sparks of light and these bits of light
according to Wordsworth are remembrance of our earlier existence in paradise. If
a man is in touch with his childhood, he finds some solace or peace. Although Wordsworth
is far removed from blessed state of childhood, there is hope yet. A man can always
find strength in remembrance of things passed. Memories of the past are a
source of infinite happiness. They are reform of all our understanding which nothing
can destroy. So it is essentially the remembrance of childhood. This is the
essence of poems.
Stanza 10 – He takes pleasure in nature. He does not want
to give it up.
Stanza 11 – He appreciates the morning day is still young
as the child is young. The clouds that make things mystique and unclear, the clouds
rob the light of the day. Clouds of gloom, depression and sadness make the end
of life gloomy and sad. Flowers can provoke men to think deep thoughts. Flowers
provoke men to facts of death and life.
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