My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold

- William Wordsworth

Summary of My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold:

The poem “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold” was composed by romantic poet William Wordsworth. In this poem, the poet expresses his feelings of joy and happiness seeing a rainbow in the sky. At the depth, it describes the process of poetic creation.

The poet is overjoyed when he sees a rainbow in the sky. He used to enjoy looking at the rainbow in his childhood. He wants the natural continuity of this happiness up to his old age. If the natural continuation of happiness is interrupted, he rather wants to die. In the seventh line of the poem, the poet uses a paradox, “The Child Is the Father of the Man”. In this paradox, the poet means to say that every child of the present is the potential father for the future and every father of the present was once a child. It also means that if present is the outcome of the past, so naturally the future will be the outcome of the present. Finally, the poet wants to spend his days praying to and respecting nature.

This poem also talks about the process of poetic creation. It means that the poet is reminded of his childhood by seeing a rainbow in the sky. When he is reminded of his childhood, he is filled with joyful feelings and emotions, which ultimately takes the shape of this poem. Thus this poem describes the process of poetic creation using simple diction (word) and lucid (easy) sentences.

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