Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, a visitant that while it fans my cheek doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings from the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Explaination
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These lines have been taken from poem The Prelude by William Wordsworth. It is a very long autobiographical poem. In these lines the poet is depicting his ecstatic state of mind that he feels when the gentle breeze touches his cheeks. He feels the breeze was conscious of the joy it brought to him while blowing over the green fields and below the pure, blue sky. Wordsworth loved nature; he felt transported to some inexplicable divine dimension in the presence of pristine nature around his village. While wandering in the beautiful sylvan valleys and dells, he often communed with nature.
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The poem is The Prelude (Book 1) by William Wordsworth. It is an extremely personal poem written by him in revealing the details of his life. It was written in Blank Verse. The opening Lines are from 1-16 verse. It is a poetic reflection of his poetic journey throughout his life. The poem begins in his boyhood (1798) and continues till he is mature, his adulthood. The Poet referred it as his "Poem to Coleridge", subtitled it as "Growth of a Poet's Mind." It was actually finished in 1805 but was carefully and constantly revised until 1850, when it was published posthumously.
Explanation: These are opening lines of the poem, the poet remember about his boyhood memories of his native place when he is deciding to leave life outside London and return to the Lake District, where he will be able to develop the philosophic ideas for his poems by being in close proximity to the land and nature he knows best. He is talking about the memories of refreshing gentle breeze which caresses his cheeks softly as he take in the feeling of joy of being back to the place of green fields and deep blue sky he used to love so much.