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

This post is about the line by line 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 line by line 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

LINE BY LINE ANALYSIS OF THE POEM

LINE 1-4

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;

In the first four lines of the poem, the poet has set a complete, vivid picture of a melodious evening with a calm and free environment. It explains the nature of the poet and his mind and also his visualization of the Nature and its beauty.

The term, ‘beauteous’, means beautiful. It was being used up by the poet in order to explain the beauty of the nature.

LINE 5-8

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.

In these four lines of the poem, the poet had experienced a soft tone of feelings towards the belief in God. By the term, ‘eternal motion make’, the poet conveys the message that every heart has an eternal soul which is being dedicated to God.

The poet also said in these lines, that, there was a ‘sound like thunder’, around but explains as no actual thundering around.

The sound that he heard, was just like that of a thundering sound which made him confused.

IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING CALM AND FREE

LINE 9-14

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

If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,

Thy natus 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.

The last six lines of the poem, or the last sestet of this sonnet by William Wordsworth, explains the walk, the poet was having with his young daughter, Caroline. According to him, he was more fascinated by the beauty of nature than his daughter. He feels that, as his daughter is very young, she has the spirit of beauty within herself and that is why she is not moved by the scenario of the calm and beautiful evening. Wordsworth believed that young children are very innocent and they resemble a purity within themselves.

IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING CALM AND FREE