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What Is The Mood Of The Poem To A Skylark
In To a Skylark, the speaker, or in this case a man a in love hears the song of a skylark, and cannot begin to wonder of the birds vast beauty. He continues on in his poem about how this skylark is greater than all things, and how the speaker cannot fathom all of the birds features. In stanza one he starts by saying “Hail to the blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it.” this is really when the speaker begins to shout and express about how the bird is more than a bird. He compares the bird to a spirit quite a few times, you really see that when he says “that from heaven, or near it,”.
Continuing on through the poem he still is comparing the bird to a spirit when transitioning into stanza two. He writes “From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire;” most indefinitely when you hear cloud of fire or see cloud of fire it refers to a spirit. Simply because that how everyone portrays spirits as. Now in stanza two and three he very much compares the birds song to nature and all of nature's wonders and beauties. He goes on to say in stanza two “The blue deep thou wingest,” immensely hearing “deep blue” you always picture the ocean or the sky. Why? Because they’re big in size, and they go on for miles giving the word “deep” a bigger meaning. Stanza three talks about the sky more, but in particular the sun. It
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When it writes “With thy clear keen joyance Lanquor cannot be:”, this stanza has some unusual words, for example, lanquor, lanquor is in an easy definition the state of being weak or weary. So to put was is written in simpler words it says where there is this much joy there cannot be sadness. With all this being said stanza sixteen is all about how the speaker believes how the birds song must be connected to the feeling of love and not

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