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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

Lucy was so much filled with the vital beauty of life and so eternalized
in the poet's association of her with nature that he could not conceive of her
as subject to death. He has come to slumber in the midst of the strife of
living amidst hostile elements. This slumber has sealed him off from awareness
of what no one likes to be aware of-limits! He falls into the greatest danger
of all, forgetfulness of the precariousness of the human condition. Somewhere
beneath the "noble simplicity" of this Lucy poem there is a lash ...

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