It Is A Beauteous Evening Analysis

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“It is a Beauteous Evening” describes a beautiful evening and goes beyond appreciating the beauty of the nature that the speaker sees as he takes a walk along the beach with the child. The speaker links this beauty with the religious power he feels in nature. The poem gains more power when we learn that the child that the speaker is walking with, is actually his daughter Caroline, whom he never seen in ten years because he was separated from her and her mother by the war in France. The speaker is inspired by the innocence of the child, admiring the nature and there are many ideas he has when he looks at the surroundings and the child he is walking with. The child may not be aware of the way the speaker feels about the nature that surrounds them. From line nine the speaker tells the child …show more content…

The speaker might be very happy to see his child again, but he has so many things in his mind, maybe about the years he missed with his daughter, maybe he is wondering about the life he would be living if he had married her daughter’s mother. The theme of the poem is Nature, Religion, and Love. The speaker believes in God and trusts in him and seems to be sure that it is because of God that he has managed to get a chance of seeing his child whom maybe he did not think it was possible. The speaker believes that all of them have been protected by God to see each other again. The speaker describes the evening as he tries to convey his personal feelings to the readers. William Wordsworth is a romantic poet, this is evident in the way he conveys his feelings through nature. Romantics love nature. We can see how he takes us from his love of nature to his love of his daughter. In this poem we also learn about the faith he has in God, that he believed all these years that one day when the dust to settles, he will go back and see his daughter. He never gave up on her. He might have been thinking and imagining this