LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING – LINE BY LINE ANALYSIS (WILLIAM WORDSWORTH)

This post is about the line by line analysis of Lines Written In Early Spring 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 Lines Written In Early Spring written by William Wordsworth.

I heard a thousand blended notes,

While in a grove I sate reclined,

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts

Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link

The human soul that through me ran;

And much it grieved my heart to think

What man has made of man.

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,

The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;

And ’tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,

Their thoughts I cannot measure:—

But the least motion which they made

It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,

To catch the breezy air;

And I must think, do all I can,

That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,

If such be Nature’s holy plan,

Have I not reason to lament

What man has made of man?

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.

Wordsworth had written this poem, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’, in 1798. It was the year when William Wordsworth and his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge mentioned their upcoming on the literary scene with their great Collection of Romantic Poems and Lyrical Ballads.

ABOUT THE POEM

The poem, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’, was written by William Wordsworth, is a famous poem. This poem is a countryside poem. It has been written in 1798. It describes a lonely person, who is sitting alone in a place beneath a tree and is lost in his own thoughts of society and nature that is surrounding him.

The poet, here, mentioned the poem as an English Romantic Poem, where it had endured the nature and its social relationships with human beings.

LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING

LINE BY LINE ANALYSIS OF THE POEM

LINE 1-4

I heard a thousand blended notes,

While in a grove I sate reclined,

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts

Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

In these first four ones of the poem, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring‘, the poem begins suddenly, and jumps into the action. Initially the readers got no idea about the speaker and his belongings. From the very beginning of the poem, the poet, William Wordsworth, present  ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’, In a harmonic manner.

LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING

Initially the poem feels like as it is a sound full luxury and speciality. But as the poem continues, the thinking of the narrator is revealed. The readers get to understand the real meaning of the poem.

The sense of mystery is being revealed in this second line of the poem. in those lines of the poem, the narrator is sitting in his chair in a lonely place, beneath the tree, end imagines about the impactful nature  on the changing society.

LINE 2-8

To her fair works did Nature link

The human soul that through me ran;

And much it grieved my heart to think

What man has made of man.

These four lines of the poem, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring‘, are the second quatrain, which relates briefly about the Nature and its impacts, which are causing by the Humans over time.

The poet through the words of the narrator explains how nature is being linked up with humanity. The poet, Wordsworth, feels that nature is always very close to humanity and this has always been proven through his poems. In this poem, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’, also, he portrayed the same resonance.

 LINE 9-12

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,

The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;

And ’tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes.

In these four lines of the poem, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring‘, the poet through the words of the narrator has continuously compared the Nature as a living thing. He exclaimed the enjoyment he was experiencing at that time through these lined of the poem. In this poem, Wordsworth described about  green nature and the blooming winds all around.

LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING

LINE 13-16

The birds around me hopped and played,

Their thoughts I cannot measure:—

But the least motion which they made

It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

Through these lines of the poem,’ Lines Written in Early Spring’, the narrator described about the scenario of the nature. The narrator’s attention is being drawn by the birds, hoping and playing all around and enjoying the beauty of the nature.

LINE 17-20

The budding twigs spread out their fan,

To catch the breezy air;

And I must think, do all I can,

That there was pleasure there.

In these second last quatrain of the poem,’ Lines Written in Early Spring’, the poet described about how the twigs had spreaded their fan in order to catch those ‘breezy air’.

LINE 20-24

If this belief from heaven be sent,

If such be Nature’s holy plan,

Have I not reason to lament

What man has made of man?

In these last stanza or the last quatrain  of the poem,’ Lines Written in Early Spring’, the poet Concluded the poem by comparing the impacts of the nature on human beings. Here, the poet requests the nature to heal his injurious soul which had been injured by this changing nature and it’s beauty. In this lines, the poet is in or melancholic mood as he feels sad for his injuries soul and wanted it to be healed by the Nature and its beauty.

LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING