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Works of William Wordsworth: To The Cuckoo

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

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
To The Cuckoo

This is a famous poem. Wordsworth considered it a favorite. Again it is a
poem of complex meanings in the poet's relationship with nature. The poet
hails the bird, but then he immediately considers whether the sound that he
hears should be attributed to an actual living thing; it may be only "a
wandering Voice." The sound of the bird (second stanza) is "At once far off,
and near." In stanza three there is that important word vision, adapted here
in adjectival form to describe the kind of message ("tale") the bird brings to
him, "a tale ...

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