"My Heart Leaps Up" by William Wordsworth

 

My Heart Leaps Up

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

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Who wrote the poem "My Heart Leaps Up"?

William Wordsworth  (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850)

William Wordsworth was an English poet who pioneered the Romantic Movement with his close friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He famously defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Using the ordinary language “really used by men,” he wrote beautiful poetry with sweet imagery, often based around the natural world. He suffered from depression, which was reflected in somber undertones in his poems. He was the Poet Laureate for Queen Victoria from 1843 until his death from pleurisy in 1850.

"My Heart Leaps Up" explanation

In the poem, the speaker looks at a rainbow in the sky with joy and awe. He wishes to maintain this childlike wonder (as to the beauty of nature and the divine presence behind it) we all once had, as we grow older. This poem also shows the poet’s characteristic use of plain, everyday language unlike most contemporary poems using dense and archaic language.