华兹华斯《我心荡漾》英文诗评.docx

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. by William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 1. Wordsworth has often mentioned as the “ Lake Poets ” because he lived in the Lake District in the Northwestern part of England. Wordsworth lived a long life and wrote a lot of poets. He was at his best in description of mountains and rivers, flowers and birds, children and peasants, and reminiscences of his own childhood and youth. As a great poet of nature, he was the first to find words for the most elementary sensations of man face to face with natural phenomena. These sensations are universal and old but, once expressed in his poetry, become charming beautiful and new. His poems of nature were written according to his own arguing that “ our continued influxe feeling are directed and modified by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings. ” He stored up natural impressions and “ thought long and deeply ” over them b reproducing them in poetry. 2. In this very short poem consisting of only 9 lines, the entire poem is to praise the nature. My heart leaps up when I behold / A Rainbow in the sky.: The poetry begins by announcing that he is moved by nature, and especially by natures beauty. He keeps on saying that he has always felt the effect of nature, even when he was a child: So was it when my life began; / so is it now I am a man. The writer is so certain of his relationship with nature that he says it will be constant until he becomes an old man, or else he would rather die: So be it when I shall grow old, / Or let me die! In the next line he declares that children are superior to men because of they are closed to nature: The Child is father of the Man. For this reason, he wishes to bind himself to his childhood self: And I could wish my days