Moreover, importance should be attached to his longer and better-known Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood, for the day after he wrote the lyric, the ode was buckled down to with the last three lines from the former served as an epigraph to the latter。 Thus, the great possibility of clues of interpretation between “My Heart Leaps Up” and Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood could be unshakably established, as the scholars represented by Kevin Moore have commented that Wordsworth's state of mind while composing the one about the rainbow could be comparatively more elaborated on the great ode (1990: 144)。

1。2 Research Background

  After zigzagging through an era vibrant with honors to William Wordsworth when he was highly revered as Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria after the criticisms on his use of common language and diction, thoughts of poetics and metrical arrangements, “ raised up to be a chief minister, not only of noblest poesy, but of high and sacred truth” (cited in Gill, 2003) and the time appropriately a century later when conversely he was evaluated as “not attractive and not intellectual possibility” by Lionel Trilling (1955: 118) representatively at an event to mark the centenary of his death, the judgments of history, in the inevitable shifting floods of intellectual concerns which afresh centers on Romantics: the western culture’s preoccupation with self and the identity; the linguistic turn of numerous current theories; the zest in politics, power and nationhood; the issues on environments—as the dominant features of the last half-century’s cultural landscape—have been embraced in the colossal field of Wordsworth’s thousands of lines of poetry, eventually rediscover and reconfigure Wordsworth with increasing thought-provoking meanings excavated tremendously from different terrains。 

  Since the 1960s, after some upsurges and low tides, endless waves of academic researches of Wordsworth and his poetry have begun to hit the foreign and domestic circles respectively。 And the western scholars by and large, on a general level, tended to focus on the conception of nature, the string of thoughts, the fragments of melancholy, the growth of the spirit, the type and genre, the naturalistic pantheism and so on, fused with the elements of the politics, the history and the society in the flowing historical linear with different emphasis at different stages--undoubtedly, they are all very important—the professor in comparative literature, Nicholas Roe’s “Politics, History and Wordsworth’s Poems” analyzing his poems coupled with politics and history (2003: 196-212); the literary theorist, Geoffrey。 Hartman’s Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1787-1814 centering on the link between his conception of the nature and the poet as a “vision” (1964); Scott Hess’ “Nature and the Environment”  outlining his ideas towards the nature(2015:207-223); the works of Majorie Levison and Alan Lin from an angle of New Historicism both emphasizing the influence and history and politics (2002); Stephen Gill’s “The Philosophic Poet” presenting his string of philosophic thoughts (2003:142-160)—however, when confined to the natural piety, the rainbow and more connotations in “My Heart Leaps Up”, which means penetrating into one lyric, so little is the literature that it is not ample to collect fragmentary reviews from scattered reading materials, although Moore Kevin’s The Descent of the Imagination (1990) and Harold Bloom’s How to Read and Why (2001), as representative ones, have unwrapped some of the parcels by analyzing the main image of the rainbow on different degrees and even quite deeply, there still lack adequate theses and works aimed at unlocking the “puzzles” from different perspectives since the interpretation of this poem is usually slightly made compared with Wordsworth’s more well-known ones and many commentators have established a connection between the rainbow with the covenant in Hebrew mythology, nearly ignoring the Greek elements。