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Concetti Chiave

  • The poem "My heart leaps up" by William Wordsworth is a lyrical ballad celebrating the joy of seeing a rainbow.
  • It consists of a single stanza with 9 lines of irregular length and an irregular rhyme scheme: ABCCABCDE.
  • Wordsworth employs a paradox in line 7, "The child is father of the man," suggesting children's closeness to nature makes them superior.
  • The poem uses different tenses to reflect the poet's life stages: past (childhood), present (maturity), and future (old age).
  • Repetitions and run-on-lines enhance the poem's rhythm and emphasize the continuity of the poet's feelings towards nature.

Indice

  1. La poesia di Wordsworth
  2. Analisi della struttura
  3. Interpretazione personale

La poesia di Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began,

So is it now I am a man,

So be it when I shall grow old

Or let me die!

The child is father of the man:

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

This poem, written by William Wordsworth in 1802, it is a typical lyrical ballad about the rainbow. In the text the poet shows his happiness when he sees the rainbow. : The poet says when he sees it, he feels happy.

Analisi della struttura

The poem is composed by only one stanza, which is made up of 9 lines, which have an irregular length, are aligned and begin with capital letters.

There is an irregular rhyme scheme: ABCCABCDE. There are two run-on-lines: lines 1-2 “when I behold a rainbow in the sky” and lines 8-9 “to be bound each to each”. There are also three repetitions of the word “so” in lines 3-4-5.

In addition, in line 7 there is a paradox (“The child is father of the man”): he declares that children are superior to men because of their proximity to nature. Moreover, we can notice that in line 3-4-5, there are three different tenses: was (past-childhood), is (present-maturity), be (future-old age).

Interpretazione personale

I like this poem because it makes me think of the rainbow’s effect on me and also at all the stories my parents told me when I was a child.

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