8/4/2023 0 Comments The rainbow william wordsworthPart of the awesome power of innocence is to have an unadulterated experience of beauty, and a heart free enough of worldly traces and chains, to leap up in acknowledgement of such wonders as that great band of color that flashes unexpectedly across the sky. In other words, it is the heart that instigates all knowledge and completes it, making it essential. It is through the heart that we come to know things both initially and fully. Wordsworth alighted on the shining, shimmering rainbow not only to rejoice in the beauty of the natural world but also to reflect on the movements of every person’s heart and mind. William Wordsworth speaks this language fluently in his evocative little paean to a life of wonder in “The Rainbow.” Written on March 26, 1802, in the Lake District of northern England, the famous Romantic poet gives voice to those urges of pure emotion and heartfelt desires that beauty evokes, which is the child’s being and the man’s blessing. The Fox whispered to the Little Prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s time-honored tale, “It is with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.” And the language of the heart that speaks what it sees is poetry.
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