William Wordsworth 1770-1850
My
heart leaps up when I behold
The poem ‘’My Heart Leaps Up’’ is written by William Wordworth, He wrote these on the night of March 26, 1802. This poem become one of the best romantics in literary world (English Literature) at the time. In this poem, Wordworth expressed and describes the joy in his heart and feels when he behold rainbows (His love toward nature). He is also felt the experiences of his childhood when it happen again.
In the first and second line, Wordworth wrote “My heart
leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky ’’ when he saw the rainbow in the
sky, his heart leapt with extreme happines. ‘’So was it when my life began’’ He
began his first memories of when he first beheld a rainbow. He leapt with
extreme happines. He wants his heart to be happy in the future also in the same
way when he will see the rainbow. “So is it now when i am a man” expresses the
feelings he still has when he behold rainbows as a man. ‘’So be it when I shall
grow old’’ expresses his desire to still have the same feelings he had now when
he behold a rainbow. ‘’Or let me die’’ He wants to keep memories his ‘Leaps
heart’ even when he is death. He thinks that ‘’The child is father of the man’’
cause a child has all the characteristics that grow along with him and become
the characteristics of the man. In the same way a grown man develops the
characteristics he showed as a child. ‘’And I could wish my days to be bound
each to each by natural piety’’ So, Wordsworth in this poem wishes the
condition and ‘Heart feel’ of the time when he was child is same at the moment
the adulthood came in his life.