A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
A slumber did
my spirit seal;
I had no
human fears:
She seemed a
thing that could not feel
The touch of
earthly years.
No motion has
she now, no force;
She neither
hears nor sees;
Rolled round
in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks,
and stones, and trees.
Themes
1. Love
2. Innocence
3. Nature
4. Simplicity
5. Issues related to nature and man’s relationship with nature.
6. Human consciousness
7. Death (Bitterness nor devastating grief or emptiness)
Techniques
· The poem is a lyric, elegy and nature poem.
· Alliterations
· Assonance
· Symbols - Ex: Lucy”
· Imagery
· Personal experience
· Contrast
· Bare, clinical language
· Variation of tone and mood.
Ex: In the first stanza – light-hearted, contented
In the second stanza – Sad, pensive, desperate consolation
· Rhyme scheme
· Metrics – Contrast between illusion and reality
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