My Heart Leaps Up David Crawford "My Heart Leaps Up", by William Wordsworth, is a poem that was written simply to express the poet's awe and reverence for the beauty of the world surrounding him. The tone of the poem is passionate; Wordsworth talks about how his heart "leaps" at the sight of a rainbow and exclaims how he would prefer death to losing his appreciation for the beauty of nature. Wordsworth uses various rhythmic …
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…is, in effect, wiser, like a father, than the Man. Secondly in terms of an individual's development, the child preced! es the Man. Thus, the child in a way gives birth to or conceives the adult. The adult can only achieve true wisdom or "natural piety" if he/she has learned the lessons of the father ("Child")--by getting in touch once again with the child's pure and innocent appreciation of the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**