A Slumber did My Spirit Seal
by
William Wordsworth
(Poem
& Summary)
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.
Summary
In
the opening lines of this poem, the poet expresses his grief over the death of his
beloved. He is so shocked by her death, that he feels that his soul has gone
into a deep sleep. Now the poet does not have any fear. After her death, she is
not affected by the physical existence of humans and time. His beloved passed
away peacefully leaving everything behind.
In
the second stanza, the poet says that there is no motion left in his beloved’s
body as death has come over. She has no life force in her body. She neither hears
nor sees anything. She has become earth-like, rotating around the Sun every
day. She is now a part of the tree, rocks, and stones that also move along with
the Earth. She has become a part of nature itself and is immortal and
unforgettable for the poet. The poet immortalizes his beloved in making her
merge with the cosmic forces.
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