A slumber did my Spirit Seal

A poem by William Wordsworth, is a part of the NCERT and newly adopted TBSE Syllabus, a must for everyone to understand the poem

1. A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
A PowerPoint presentation by: Mrinal Sir
Class IX Poem

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William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet
who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the
Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication
Lyrical Ballads.
Born: 7 Apr, 1770
Died: 23 Apr, 1850

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The poet has expressed his grief over the death of a
loved one. He says that he had no usual human fears
now as death is the ultimate fear for human beings.

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•When a person is alive, then he has many apprehensions
and many fears like disease, famine etc.
•But death makes the end of all these fears because
earthly fears or usual fears seem to have no effect on his
beloved.
•She has passed away peacefully leaving everything
behind.

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•In the second stanza, the poet mentions that there is no
motion in the body of his beloved as death has overcome
her. Also, death has deprived her of her strength.
•She is unable to see and unable to hear. All her senses
are dead now. She has adjusted herself with the routine
activity of earth now.

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•As the earth completes its routine of day and night with
the rocks, stones and trees; so does the beloved of the
poet now. She has become a part of the nature. The poet
concludes with her afterlife.

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Is ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’ one of Wordsworth’s Lucy poems?
It’s often assumed that it belongs to that suite of poems about a young
girl who died; but unlike the other Lucy poems, ‘A slumber did my spirit
seal’ doesn’t mention Lucy’s name, so at best it can be surmised
(tentatively, at that) that Wordsworth had ‘Lucy’ in mind in this poem.
However, Wordsworth placed ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’ near
the bona fide Lucy poems, ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’ and
‘Strange fits of passion had I known’ – in the 1800 edition of Lyrical
Ballads, suggesting that he intended this to be a Lucy poem.

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•The End