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The document discusses the poem 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' by Wordsworth, focusing on the poet's reaction to his loved one's death, expressing a mix of grief and peace. It highlights how the poet perceives his beloved as motionless and unaffected by time, now a part of nature. The central idea revolves around the sorrow of loss and the acceptance of mortality, as well as the philosophical reflection on materialism and human desires.

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The document discusses the poem 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' by Wordsworth, focusing on the poet's reaction to his loved one's death, expressing a mix of grief and peace. It highlights how the poet perceives his beloved as motionless and unaffected by time, now a part of nature. The central idea revolves around the sorrow of loss and the acceptance of mortality, as well as the philosophical reflection on materialism and human desires.

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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

NCERT Q/A

Question 1. “A slumber did my spirit seal,” says the poet. That is, a deep sleep ‘closed off’ his
soul (or mind). How does the poet react to his loved one’s death? Does he feel bitter grief? Or
does he feel a great peace?
Answer: “A slumber did my spirit seal” says the poet. It is a little difficult to decide if the poet
felt bitter grief or peace. He says that his soul has been sealed due to his loved one’s death and
that he does not have any human fears. He talks about how his loved one seemed now-
motionless and beyond the passage of time.

Question 2. The passing of time will no longer affect her, says the poet. Which lines of the poem
say this?
Answer: The lines of the poem that say this are:
“She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.”

Question 3. How does the poet imagine her to be, after death? Does he think of her as a person
living in a very happy state (a ‘heaven’)? Or does he see her now as a part of nature? In which
lines of the poem do you find your answer?
Answer: The poet imagines her to be immersed in the earth. He feels that she has become a part
of the earth’s daily course and rolled along with the rocks, stones and trees.
The lines of the poem that we find our answer in are:
“Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees.”
Question Bank
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. What had sealed the poet’s spirit?
2. What slumber is the poet talking about?
3. What could she not feel now?
4. What is meant by ‘human fears’?
ANSWERS
1. The death of his beloved.
2. Deep sleep/death.
3. She could not feel any effect of time now.
4. It means the common worries and fears of humans like Worries, death, diseases etc.

LONG ANSWER QESTIONS


1. What is Wordsworth referring to when he uses the phrase “The touch of earthly years”?
Ans. By ‘earthly years’, Wordsworth means time as it is measured on this earth. It is measured
in terms of months, years and seasons. Lucy is dead now, and so she will not feel ‘the earthly
years’. In other words, time will now have no effect on her.

2. What is the central idea of Wordsworth’s poem, ‘A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL?
Ans. This poem expresses the poet’s deep sorrow at the death of a sweet child/beloved. He says
that she has lost all physical motion and force. But now time will have no effect on her. Like
other things of nature, she has become a part of the cosmic world.
3. All of us know that nothing is permanently ours, then why do we suffer so much to have
more and more.
(Key points - human tendency - mania of owning things - materialism etc.)

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