My Heart Leaps Up David Crawford "My Heart Leaps Up", by William Wordsworth, is a poem that was written simply to express the poet's awe and reverence for the beauty of the world surrounding him. The tone of the poem is passionate; Wordsworth talks about how his heart "leaps" at the sight of a rainbow and exclaims how he would prefer death to losing his appreciation for the beauty of nature. Wordsworth uses various rhythmic …showed first 75 words of 623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 623 total…is, in effect, wiser, like a father, than the Man. Secondly in terms of an individual's development, the child preced! es the Man. Thus, the child in a way gives birth to or conceives the adult. The adult can only achieve true wisdom or "natural piety" if he/she has learned the lessons of the father ("Child")--by getting in touch once again with the child's pure and innocent appreciation of the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**