Lines Written in Early Spring BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Lines Written in Early Spring
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:—
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?


Lines written in Early spring is a comparison of the state of nature to the state of mankind.
The poem is a ballad composed in six quatrains; six stanzas of four lines, being each line composed by four iambic feet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GHGH, DIDI, JDJD.
In the poem, ‘Written in Early Spring’, Wordsworth feels sad about the fact that man alone among all creation is neither in harmony with his own kind nor with nature.The poet believes that he is in perfect communion with Nature and the soul that runs through him is shared with that of Nature.
The poet was sitting under a tree, listening to the music of the breeze, the chirping of birds and the creaking of insects. He is in that sweet mood.
The natural sights and sounds have brought a sweet mood in him. But, along with it some sad thoughts too come to his mind.
Nature seems to have linked his soul with her soul in perfect communion.
He is happy in that realization of a spiritual companionship with Nature. But his happiness s spoilt when he realizes that man's greed has destroyed the biodiversity of the earth. He has made the lives of fellow humans miserable by his thoughtless and inhuman acts (Pl note that the poem was written with the memory of French Revolution during which WW was present in France)

The poet is trying to say that the plants and the flowers coexist peacefully and seem to derive pleasure from their living.
Similarly, the birds seem to be in harmony and seem to derive pleasure in their movements of hopping and playing. In the same way the poet feels that the fresh branches seem to experience pleasure as they spread out into the air to catch it.
In the last stanza, the poet sums up what he has said. He feels that if the divine plan or ‘Nature’s holy plan’ is pleasurable and peaceful coexistence, he wonders why man alone has moved away from this plan. Only man lives in discord with himself and the rest of creation.


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This poem describes William Wordsworth outside on an afternoon in early spring. the entirety is so alive and appears to be enjoying the sector so greatly, its contrast against the human response to matters is as a substitute depressing. all the vegetation are blooming and the birds are singing. the author wonders why such a nice surroundings brings such unhappy thoughts to thoughts.
Spring has usually represented a period of rebirth and renewal, each in nature and in literature. it's far the beginning of a brand new cycle, a new starting. Why is Wordsworth so sad?
One possiblility will be a herbal resistance to change. I recognise in my opinion i'm not a large fan of alternate and huge adjustments appear very hard to me.
This poem may speak the remoted role of man within the global. man is caught in among everything; no longer quite a person and now not quite a beast. He has the ability to look at the arena around him and realise and mentally method it to a degree this is a ways past nevertheless being a beast, and but he isn't always capable of communicating fully with the bestial global or completely know-how the essence of human intuition. guy, however, is not God. There are circumstances which might be to date above him that he can do not anything about. man is a mortal being, situation to the elements and his very own decisions. It leaves guy in the middle floor. He can't be fully glad with such a nice day as nature is because he is capable of assume and recognize things to a new level that takes away a sure degree of bestial innocence. but, he isn't able to fix this stuff and ought to honestly address them. for instance, he may additionally pay attention to the birds chatting away merrily to each different, but he cannot realise what they are announcing. he is excluded from the arena of the beasts. The ultimate stanza talks about whether those ideals are heaven ship, acknowledging that man isn't god. guy is what man makes of himself. because he is between the strains, it's far as much as him to determine what course he's going to circulate in. Wordsworth seems to lament that guy has not stayed greater simplistic.

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