IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE – CRITICAL ANALYSIS (WILLIAM WORDSWORTH)

This post is about the critical analysis of It Is A Beauteous Evening, Calm And Free written by William Wordsworth. In this post you will find out the complete summary of the poem in an easy to understand language. Moreover you will find some extra information about the poet as well as the poem in this post which you will certainly find helpful. Let us find the critical analysis of A Beauteous Evening, Calm And Free written by William Wordsworth.

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,

The holy time is quiet as a Nun

Breathless with adoration; the broad sun

Is sinking down in its tranquillity;

The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea;

Listen! the mighty Being is awake,

And doth with his eternal motion make

A sound like thunder—everlastingly.

Dear child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,

If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,

Thy nature is not therefore less divine:

Thou liest in Abraham’s bosom all the year;

And worshipp’st at the Temple’s inner shrine,

God being with thee when we know it not.

ABOUT THE POET

William Wordsworth was one of the greatest poets of the 19^th century, during the Romantic Era. He was an English Romantic poet, who had contributed a lot to form the Romantic Era, during the 19^th century. He was born on 7^th April 1770 in the United Kingdom. He took his last breath on 23^rd April 1850 in the UK.

This poem, ‘It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free ‘, is all about the natural beauty of the evening when the poet and his daughter was having a evening walk beside the river. The poet has written this poem in order to express the beauty and the calmness of the evening and the place around.

ABOUT THE POEM

The poem, ‘ It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free ‘, is a sonnet  which was  been written  by William Wordsworth in the year 1802. This poem was initially been published in the Collection of  ‘Poems, in Two Volumes, in 1807.

This point was based upon a natural evening work which the narrator was having, with his nine years old daughter, Caroline Vallon.

 The natter, Wordsworth, feels that his daughter is unaffected and is with no interest in the mesmerising scenario of nature as she is too young to understand and feel the innocence of this beautiful evening.  According to the poet, his daughter, Caroline, is herself a part of nature as she is too young and innocent.

IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING CALM AND FREE

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POEM

THEME of the Poem:

a)The Nature’s Holiness :- The speaker or the poet, William Wordsworth had described this poem to highlight the beauty of the nature.

 He enjoys the mesmerising evening  and it’s holiness that surrounded the place. the put expensive beautiful evening which  he had enjoyed  while he was out for a walk. Through this poem, the poet is appreciating the mesmerising beauty and sarcastic feelings that had surrounded the evening.

Through the first line of the poem we can say that the poet is overwhelmed by the calm and free evening. The poet, through his poem, wanted to express that the whole world has kept quiet and has undergone into deep silence as that of the ‘Nun’, who is asked to be breathless, as she had loved her God.

b)Childhood and Faith :- In the end of the ,poem, speaker had addressed his daughter, as “Dead Child”. He loved his daughter a lot and on that beautiful evening he was walking with his young daughter.

 Although the point was being mesmerised by those amazing beauty and calmness of that evening, his daughter was having no care on this beauty as, according to the poet, she herself is very young and she beholds the nature, with herself. That is why his daughter didn’t react much on seeing those enchanting beauties all around.

IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING CALM AND FREE

the poet also feels that  every child is the part of God  and his God within themselves and they can even see and talk to God.

 The poet noticed that the way how he was being touched an overwhelmed by the natural beauty, his daughter didn’t bother much about this holy an beautiful evening.

STRUCTURE of the Poem:

This is one of the best poems of William Wordsworth. In this poem he had portrayed the evening as a beautiful one which is ‘calm and free’. The point is written in an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet format.

It has a rhyming scheme of ABBAABBA at the first eight lines or at the octave of the poem and CDECDE at the last six lines or at the sestet of the poem.

This poem is based on a classic Romantic theme which is full of innocence and love of Nature.

 BACKGROUND of the Poem:

The poem, ‘ It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free ‘, was been written by William Wordsworth, in the year 1802. He had written this poem in order to express about his young daughter, Caroline, with whom he was walking someday, on the same beautiful and calm evening. According to the poet, The reason of working with his daughter on that seaside area on such a beautiful evening it was very important for him.

IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING CALM AND FREE