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And what are ‘rocks’ if not kinds of stones? It is as if the poet – or the poet’s speaker – is deliberately trying to suggest a sense of anti-climax or flatness.
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What other kind of fears might a human like Wordsworth be expected to have? (Or does he mean ‘fears of other humans’?) ‘No motion has she now, no force’: if you have no motion, it’s unlikely you can have any force: that’s more or less a principle of Newtonian physics (force, in Newton’s second law, is mass multiplied by acceleration – acceleration implying motion). But Wordsworth’s poem doesn’t simply use more words than is necessary: it makes a positive virtue out of it. Hulme – called for a ‘dry, hard, classical verse’. Indeed, it was largely because of the verbal and emotional excesses of Romanticism that Pound – and others, such as T. ‘Don’t use more words than is necessary’ has become an unofficial maxim since at least the time of Ezra Pound and the Imagists a hundred years ago. We’re often told and taught that good poetry should not be tautological. 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. 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. But wait: in the second stanza, we are suddenly informed of the woman’s (girl’s?) death: she lies still and powerless, unable to see or hear, and has become a part of the day-to-day world of nature. (The meaning of the first line might be rewritten as ‘A slumber sealed, or protected, my spirit’.) This is because of an unidentified ‘she’ who did not seem to be marked by the passing of time or the ravages of nature as other mortals are.
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In summary, then: the speaker of the poem records that his soul felt at peace, as though asleep and existing in a deep calm where he had nothing to fear.
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