The poem that I’m going to discuss is “Strange fits of passion have I known,” written by William Wordsworth. I find this poem very interesting in the ways it relates the many different relationships between nature and the moon. It has many different aspects about it that causes me to think of many different questions. When looking at this poem it raises many different thoughts that you would not think about unless you actually think deeply about the poem. The analysis that I’m writing about is the theme written within the poem of the relationship between nature and the moon. When looking at the first stanzas we can see that he wants to tell his lover a secret, but he is afraid something bad is going to happen to him when he does it.
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He explains how beautiful nature is and how he enjoys to just sit on his horse and watch the stars, and the moon. To me he is referencing the beautiful relationship between nature and the moon. It then mentions “On the descending moon,” which to me means that the moon the falling behind the tree line in the distance, which is representing that the sun is going to be rising soon (Wordsworth 20). But after talking about it in class and thinking more about it specifically I think it could mean something more to the rest of the story. After he talks about the “descending moon” he continues to ride closer to Lucy’s house and the moon was falling behind the cottages roof (20). At this moment in the poem, he has a thought that something bad has happened to Lucy and now he is worried. He says, “what foolish and difficult thoughts to control slide into his head about his lover,” he is having bad thoughts that something has happened to his lover (Wordsworth 25). At the end of the poem he has this thought that Lucy might be dead, but we have no reason as to why he believes she might be dead. Nothing happened in the poem that would make us believe that she had died. The only thing that I noticed that might of made him think that she was dead was when he mentioned the “descending moon,” (Wordsworth 20). The moon dropping gave him a bad feeling about her and when he finally approached her house he had this bad gut feeling that something had happened to Lucy and she had died. Something else that I thought about that maybe would of gave him the thought that Lucy was dead, was he noticed something different in nature surrounding her house. Since before he was admiring nature, he might have noticed something different within nature through the moonlight and that is when the thought of Lucy might be dead crossed his mind. Since the relationship between nature and the moon is very important to him whenever he
He explains how beautiful nature is and how he enjoys to just sit on his horse and watch the stars, and the moon. To me he is referencing the beautiful relationship between nature and the moon. It then mentions “On the descending moon,” which to me means that the moon the falling behind the tree line in the distance, which is representing that the sun is going to be rising soon (Wordsworth 20). But after talking about it in class and thinking more about it specifically I think it could mean something more to the rest of the story. After he talks about the “descending moon” he continues to ride closer to Lucy’s house and the moon was falling behind the cottages roof (20). At this moment in the poem, he has a thought that something bad has happened to Lucy and now he is worried. He says, “what foolish and difficult thoughts to control slide into his head about his lover,” he is having bad thoughts that something has happened to his lover (Wordsworth 25). At the end of the poem he has this thought that Lucy might be dead, but we have no reason as to why he believes she might be dead. Nothing happened in the poem that would make us believe that she had died. The only thing that I noticed that might of made him think that she was dead was when he mentioned the “descending moon,” (Wordsworth 20). The moon dropping gave him a bad feeling about her and when he finally approached her house he had this bad gut feeling that something had happened to Lucy and she had died. Something else that I thought about that maybe would of gave him the thought that Lucy was dead, was he noticed something different in nature surrounding her house. Since before he was admiring nature, he might have noticed something different within nature through the moonlight and that is when the thought of Lucy might be dead crossed his mind. Since the relationship between nature and the moon is very important to him whenever he