The Rainbow by William Wordsworth| My heart leaps up| JSSC CGL| Sahayak Acharya| analysis| in hindi

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TEXT
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

ABOUT THE POEM
On the surface, William Wordsworth’s ‘My Heart Leaps Up’ is about the simple beauty of a rainbow. Looking at it more closely, the poet is saying people should maintain their sense of childlike wonder well into adulthood and old age.

Speaker: Usually assumed to be Wordsworth

Emotions Evoked: Enjoyment, Excitement, Hope, Joyfulness

Poetic Form: Free Verse

Wordsworth wrote "My Heart Leaps Up" on the night of March 26, 1802.

He was staying at Dove Cottage in Grasmere with his sister, Dorothy.
It was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807.

The last three lines from "My Heart Leaps Up" are used as part of the epigraph to "Intimations of Immortality".

Type of poem : Lyric

The rhyme scheme of this piece can be sketched as ABCCABCDD.

Regarding the meter, the poem is written in iambic tetrameter. There are three variations: the second line is in iambic trimeter, the sixth line contains two iambs, and the last line is in iambic pentameter.

ABOUT THE POET
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge". ( magnum opus - masterpiece)

Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.
(Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is inflammation of the membranes that surround the lungs and line the chest cavity)

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland (now in Cumbria), part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District.

William was close all his life to his sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth. They were baptized together.

Wordsworth was taught to read by his mother, and he first attended a tiny school of low quality in Cockermouth, then a school in Penrith for the children of upper-class families.

At the school in Penrith, he met the Hutchinsons, including Mary Hutchinson, who later became his wife.

Wordsworth debuted as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John's College, Cambridge. He received his BA degree in 1791.

The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches .

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