Can anyone give me stanza wise meaning and literary devices of the poem "to the cuckoo" by William Wordsworth, in English...Its urgent plzzzz...Poem below:
O blithe New - comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice.
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?
While I am lying on the grass
Thy twofold shout I hear;
From hill to hill it seems to pass,
At once far off, and near.
Though babbling only to the Vale
Of sunshine and of flowers,
Thou bringest unto me a tale
Of visionary hours.
Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring!
Even yet thou art to me
No bird, but an invisible thing,
A voice, a mystery;
The same whom in my school-boy days
I listened to; that Cry
Which made me look a thousand ways
In bush, and tree, and sky.
To seek thee did I often rove
Through woods and on the green;
And thou wert still a hope, a love;
Still longed for, never seen.
And I can listen to thee yet;
Can lie upon the plain
And listen, till I do beget
That golden time again.
O blessèd Bird! the earth we pace
Again appears to be
An unsubstantial, faery place;
That is fit home for Thee!
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Answer:
Wordsworth addresses the Cuckoo bird and praises its lovely voice which fills him with joy. He calls it a "wandering Voice" because it sings its song wherever it goes.
Cuckoo flies from hills to hills mesmerizing the landscape with the song. He can hear the bird's voice while lying on the grass.
It occurs to him that the cuckoo is communicating with the valley of sunshine and flowers but it also arises visionary tales in his mind, for hours he sit and visualize.
For Wordsworth, the cuckoo is not just an ordinary bird, he finds something mysterious in the bird. He gladly welcomes it, calling it "darling of the Spring".
He reminisces his childhood when he used to hear its voice and how it made him look at Nature (bush, tree, sky) in a thousand different ways. In other words, He learnt to gain different perspectives from ordinary things of nature.
He adds that how he did try to find the bird in the woods and like a rare object, it was a hope (a desirous thing) to find it. He longed to find it then but remain unsuccessful.
And at present, he can listen to its voice while resting on the plain till he can remember those old childhood days from his memories.
The bird is pronounced as "blessed bird" by Wordsworth. He calls the bird to stay on earth because the coming of cuckoo makes it an idealistically unreal and faery place.
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