It Is A Beauteous Evening Poem by William Wordsworth

It Is A Beauteous Evening

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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea:
Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder - everlastingly.
Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year,
And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Subrata Ray 25 February 2010

Subrata Ray, labels Wordsworth's poem By The Sea as fragment of the poet's autobiography.The poet in reality was walking with his illegitimate daughter, -Caroline, born of Annette Vallon and and the poet.The scene is the sea-shore of Calais where, Wordsworth, his French mistress and ten-years daughter often enjoyed the beach-walking.In certain -twilight in 1802, the poet's frustration regarding his parentage of the daughter agitated the poet's heart, and he soothed him-self with the image of a divine -atmosphere. Sudden appearance of God and the poet's heightened imagination, both lead the poet to have a supernatural feelings. The ability of catching the sound of the eternal motion remains only with the saints.The poet's imagination makes him for the time -being a fake saint. Again in a child the passions of grown -up -man, remain in a dormant -state.In this sense it can not have its shelter in Abraham's heart. Yet, I must admit that a poet's mind -land is somewhat true, and it often possesses the over-seeing power. Subrata Ray.Mousumipara.Uluberia.West Bengal.India.

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