My Heart Leaps Up

The object of the present text is to give a personal interpretation off the William Wordsworth’s poem My Heart Leaps Up.
It is not meant to give a definitive answer but I am going to try to make some possible conjectures about the poem message, supported by the textual analysis.

First of all, after reading the title, the intelligent reader may ask himself some possible questions such as “why does the poet’s heart leap up?” “Is he worried of happy?” “has something scared him?” “Does he have any trebles?” “Has he any fear?” Considering this title, the reader may aspects the poem to be structured as the poem will explain what makes the poet’s hart leaps up; who or what is the reason and go on.

Evaluating the lay-out of this poem, it is structured in one only stanza made of nine lines. The particularly feature of this stanza is that the first, the sixth and the eighth lines starts not at the beginning of the paragraph but after, such as the poet wants to underline an imperceptible distance between what he has just said in every lines before.
In this poem every first letter of every line is capitalise and it is structures in a free line verse with the presence of an anaphora in lines three, four and five.

Furthermore if you consider the theme of this three lines you can see that there is a passage from the past when W. Wordsworth’s life began to the present as he actually is a man to an inevitable future when he should get old.

Besides a paradox is clearly visible between lines three, four, five and the sixth. It may be a paradox because the poet put in contrast the three different stages of life with the last one which implies die.

In addition you can notice that in this part of the poem, this three lines have a different strutture as compared to the other ones which have the common structure subject, verb and complement.
Instead this particular three lines are organised like a question, which implies the inversion of the subject with the verb, this can indicate that they may be implicite questions because of the absence of the question mark.

By the way in the seventh line there is another paradox because of the affirmation of something “impossible” namely “the child is father of the Man” that can not be but in this case the child has the function of teach to the adults how to be curios, pure, modest and not to have preconceptions.

Finally in the last two lines there is a rhyming couplet which join better together the meaning of this lines.
Summing up, after have analyse this poem you can understand that the poet’s intention was to overall narrate his life in few different ways.