Question

Summary of wordsworth's to the butterfly poem stay near me

Answer 1

The poet wants us to know about our childhood day with full of naturalness of the country side or rural life. There a fear in his mind when he goes old and think about the death which is ahead of him. As the human nature will not permit us to live forever on this earth the poet look out for his end and he remembers his childhood days when he had a very closed relation with the nature like the butterfly and many other natural living and non-living on this world.

In the first part of the poem, it shows the soft gentle understanding compassionate side of love and respect to share a moment together of beauty and wonder.
In the second part, the hunter emerges the killer instinct to catch and capture the prey, control not letting obstacles in our path to hinder our goals. Emmeline has a soul of love and compassion.

The butterfly being the perfect being of change and metamorphosis,for one thing to another, Wordsworth sees this as the time he understands that all have good and evil within ourselves, he has come of age.