Wordsworth makes a deliberate choice of the most unpoetic occupation
and of the most unheroic hero.
Stanza 1 – The poem begins with a spring morning after a
storm. The storm had raged all night and left a serene morning. The poet seems to
rejoice int eh beauty that he sees around. The song of the birds announces a
season of ecstatic love.
Stanza 2 – Wordsworth describes the fertility of nature on the
life which springs from sun, rain and earth. This description of the perfect harmony
and life of nature leads Wordsworth to consider his own condition.
Stanza 3 – Wordsworth notices a gap between the harmonious
joy of nature and man’s own existence.
Stanza 4 – The very excess of joy leads man to a sense of
what he has to lose. Man is therefore fearful of the future. This is the
parable of the Garden of Eden in which knowledge of good and evil separates man
from natural harmony of the animal kingdom and compels him to work and fear in
future and this causes him so much anguish and pain.
Stanza 5 – The poet must experience the extremes of both joy
and pain. The nature of man’s fear for the future and his exile from the unselfconscious
paradise of the hare and the skylark is made clear in these lines.
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