I Travelled among Unknown Men
by
William Wordsworth
(Poem & Summary)
I Travelled among Unknown Men
I
travelled among unknown men,
In
lands beyond the sea;
Nor,
England! did I know till then
What
love I bore to thee.
'Tis
past, that melancholy dream!
Nor
will I quit thy shore
A
second time; for still I seem
To
love thee more and more.
Among
thy mountains did I feel
The
joy of my desire;
And
she I cherished turned her wheel
Beside
an English fire.
Thy
mornings showed, thy nights concealed,
The
bowers where Lucy played;
And
thine too is the last green field
That
Lucy's eyes surveyed.
Summary
In
the poem, the poet describes his travels. He says, that he once travelled among
people in foreign lands. He travelled the places, beyond the sea of his
homeland. He says, that he did not realize his love for England until he
travelled to other places.
The poet
further says that his voyage was like a melancholy dream. He says, that he
travelled in the past, but now he does not want to leave the shores of England
a second time, because he has started loving England more as time goes by.
Wordsworth
says, that he enjoyed being in England in the past. He was happy in the
mountains of the country and he felt the joy of his “desire”. The object of his
desire was a woman who would turn a spinning wheel beside the fireplace.
In
the last stanza, the poet continues to address England directly, describing the
passage of time. He explains how the morning light revealed Lucy’s cottage,
while the nights concealed it. He says, that Lucy played there. England’s green
fields are also the last place that Lucy saw, and she passed away there.
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