A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth - English Lit A/L - Poetry 3

     

                    

     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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References:

AL resource book provided by NIE, www.poemanalysis.com, www.owlcation.com

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