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.
This poem is from William Wordsworth, whom ,actually ,I am not that fond of.But this poem is so uncharacteristic of him and graet ,though short.I have made a comment about it in a poetry class and you are welcome to say anything about this as following:
In “ A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”, Wordsworth uses the past tense in the first stanza and present tense in the second stanza to demonstrate a intense contrast not only grammatically but also mentally to Wordsworth. In the first stanza , Wordsworth points out that he no longer have fears because his love has transcended the bound of aging and mortality (the touch of earthly years). In the second stanza, the feeling of loneliness, somehow, emerges, which can be seen In the line “No motion has she now ,no force; She neither hears nor sees.” And now she is accepted as apart of Nature, ticking with the flow of Nature for good just like rocks, and stones , and trees. In this poem, we don’t see a sorrowful word at all and Wordsworth take a somehow poised attitude; it may be the fact, with which Wordsworth identifies(as we can see in those previous poems we read) ,that Nature will always bring forth something really matters gives Wordsworth that kind of aplomb.
