Question

the poem of shadow part 2​

Answer 1

Answer:

Stanza Four

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,

I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;

But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,

Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

In the last quatrain of this piece, the speaker describes one time in which the shadow did not appear. He is not able to connect the events of this section to the physical manifestation of his shadow. Rather he presents the occasion as another quirk of this strange child who follows him around.

He speaks of a time in which he got up before the sun. The child was awake so early he could see the “shining dew on ever buttercup.” This line lets a reader know the scene was a beautiful one, something the speaker feels the shadow should not have missed. Rather than accompanying him on this early morning journey, the shadow remains in bed like “an arrant sleepy-head.” The speaker thinks this was the wrong decision