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Transcript
My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth (1770-1850
This is a fairly simple poem, but one that drives home a very important message about the power of nature to inspire.
Paraphrasis
My heart skips a beat when I see a rainbow in the sky.
This happened when I was a child, and it still happens to me now as an adult.
If I no longer feel the same joy upon seeing a rainbow when I am an old man, I'd rather not live anymore.
The child is like a father to the adult.
I want to feel a childlike sense of wonder upon seeing the natural world every day of my life.
Structure
Analysis
The rainbow is a symbol of nature as a whole and a bridge that connects Wordsworth’s spiritual self to the divine.
“natural piety” is the child's innocent, almost religious enthusiasm for nature.
Themes
nature
childhood
aging
beauty
sound devices
repetition
anaphora
enjambement
rhetorical devices
personification
allusion
hyperbole
metaphor, paradox
setting
While I was getting into bed, he wrote The Rainbow
Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth
historical context
Romantic themes
real language of men
Works Cited
Amazing Minds, Mauro Spicci, Timothy Alan Shaw, Daniela Montanari, Pearson My Heart Leaps Up, Kravatz, Jillian, LitCharts My Heart Leaps Up, Steven Swope, Poem Analysis