A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
- William Wordsworth
The poem "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" is one of the five Lucy poems written by William Wordsworth between 1798 to 1801. The central though that is prominent in the poem is the death of the girl named Lucy. According to some she was a Mysterious figure, may be his sister or a beloved. It in the first stanza the Wordsworth declared that although he has no "human fear" his "spirit" seens to be in a "slumber" - A dream like state he is innocently unaware that age can touch the woman however he is taught a harsh lesson when she dies between stanza one and two. The choice to hide the death between the stanza is interesting probably the speaker is unable to berbalise the pain that goes along with the suden loss.
The poem consists of two stanza with direct contrast of images. His imagination brought forth a beautiful by age and mortality.
In the second stanza Wordsworth gives an eerie (frightening ) description of the womes's current situation no"motion" or "force" does she have neither "hears" or "sees" which i s true of all dead people. More over by stating the fact the speaker helps the reader imagine the lively young girls as she ones was.
In the last two line the speakers describe the young women trapped beneath the surface of the eart. Infact she has become part of the earth day to day movement along with the "rocks" and "stones" and "trees" the rocks may be reffered to the gravestone and after death the body becomes a part of the earth.
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, is a balled a very short one the stanza follows an AB-AB rhyme scheme.
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