6。2 For the Undying Fire in the Embers from the Childhood 24

7。 Conclusion 27

Notes 28

References 29

1。 Introduction

1。1 Brief Account of “My Heart Leaps Up”      From优T尔K论M文L网wWw.YouERw.com 加QQ75201^8766  

In sketching the silhouettes of William Wordsworth, there exist two juxtaposing images which could be drawn synchronously —one presents the solitary visionary figure who had been orphaned early and then tormented by the hardships on the academic path and in the pursuit of revolution and in his mid-forties lived in relative poetry, adopting a lofty defensiveness against an uncomprehending “public” and the notoriety provided hostile critics: losing the shelter of parents, he and his siblings were forced to live depending on others, lonely and desolate, which frequently made him sink into reverie in solitude and thus the young boy with a sensitive heart embraced the nature closely and the love and revere for it were still within himself after the end of his childhood; while the other outlines a well-born “Laureate Poet” who had been thoroughly steeped in the meddle light of works from his predecessors and mixed with the foremost intellectuals of his day accompanied by his beloved friend and sister and at his sixties found himself world-famous: at Grammar School, the works of last century’s poems and authors were accessible to him and boosted his development of mind such as his opinion about children that they are pure and innocent which drew plentiful nourishment from Hermes Trismegistus’ thoughts and after entering into the St John’s College, Cambridge, he was influenced by Rousseau’s theory of Deism and The Social Contract and reflected on the modern culture and greatly backed his appeal to come back to the nature。 And among the sensitive observers, William Wordsworth, as the singer of nature, highly praises the natural pulchritude and seeks traces of holiness in life。 But at his time, few were people similar to him that deemed the nature as a sacred gift and respectful mentor but only the prosperity to occupy。 Experiencing and influenced by two radical events, Wordsworth has formed his own profound thoughts in meditation: the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution—the former one tremendously boosted the bourgeois development, as the milestone on the progress of democracy and liberty; the latter one contributed to the social transition from agricultural to industrial society where people accelerated enormously to exploit and conquer the nature, people were uncontrollably frenetic about modern life。 But while the voice of modern life was being amplified, with the zooming development of science and technology, Wordsworth, fed up with the fickleness, noises, disturbance of city life, decided to live in the Lake Districts where he had been born。 

Noted for its laconicism and simplicity of structure, the lines of the poetry of William Wordsworth written during the period of his returning to his home town Grasmere on the night of March 26, 1802, “My Heart Leaps Up” is called by Bliss Perry as “key-note of all Wordsworth’s poetry” (cited in Baldwin, 1918), indicating its great significance and recognized to imply Wordsworth’s quenchless revere and enormous love for nature。 In this lyric, by expressing the enormous merriment when seeing a charming rainbow in the sky with the hope of unremittingly maintaining his natural piety initially possessed by a child with days bound to each other, Wordsworth highly praises the natural pulchritude and seeks traces of holiness in life with tremendous merriment。 It has been revealed that after finishing this poem, Wordsworth did consider altering it, but eventually decided to leave it as the same with the original one, and then in 1807 it was firstly published in of Poems, in Two Volumes (Dowden & William, 1987)。