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POEM - 10 - A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal — ENGLISH STD 9 — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9ENGLISHPOEM - 10 - A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal2 Marks
Question
Give a brief analysis of the poem.
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Answer

  • In the poem ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’ the poet William Wordsworth has penned what he feels on the death of a loved one.
  • The poet feels as if he is in a trance and his life has come to a stand still.
  • However, the poet accepts death without fear.
  • He understands that death is a stage where a person doesn’t have any earthly feelings.
  • There is no motion, no human feelings or senses.
  • Just as the rocks and trees also are formed and decompose, the human body will also have to perish with death.
  • The body of his beloved is a part of the earth and its daily rotation.
  • She has now become a Part of the nature.
  • He says this in the following lines- ‘Rolled around in earth's diurnal course with rocks and stones and trees.”

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