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The poem 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' is about the death of a loved one and poet's feeling about his beloved when he thinks about her death. The poet describes his imagination about his beloved after death. This poem is a kind of elegy.
Name of the Poem - A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
By - William Wordsworth
The main idea of the poem is -
The poem expresses the poet's grief. He is deeply troubled because his loved one had died. He says that here that a slumber or a deep sleep has distressed him. His loved one is no longer with him, she was not able to sense, she didn't moved. She was in her afterlife like rocks, stones and trees.
Explanation of the poem:
Stanza 1 - A slumber did............of earthly years.
Some word meanings -
- Slumber - deep sleep/ death
- Spirit - soul
- Seal - feeling of distress
- Seemed - appeared
- Earthly - pertaining to Earth
Explanation of Stanza 1 :
In the stanza 1, the poet had expressed his grief over the death of his loved one who was no longer in the world. He says that death is ultimate fear for human so he had no usual human fears. He also says that when someone is alive he/she fear for disease, famine etc. But the one who makes end of all these fear is death. His beloved has passed away leaving everything beside.
Stanza 2- No motion has she............rocks and stones and trees.
Some word meanings -
- Rolled around - adjusted with
- Diurnal course - daily activity of something.
Explanation of Stanza 2 :
In the stanza 2, the poet says that his beloved one has no movement of the body. She lost her strength. She is unable to see and unable to hear. All senses didn't work. She was adjusted with the daily activities of Earth after death as she was in the Earth's crust with the rocks, stones and trees. She has become a part of nature, and the poet concludes with her afterlife.
The rhyme scheme of the poem is - ab ab