3. Here you see how intensely a boy
remembers an old lady who took care of him
in his childhood.
It is the poet’s loving tribute to his
nanny, the nurse who was the dear doting
sweet heart of his childhood. He regards his
nanny as the invisible companion of his
austere fate
“Dear doting sweet heart of my childhood
companion of my austere fate”
4. This helps the reader to identify the location of the house. The
house is located deep in the wildwood.
“In the lone house deep in the wildwood”
5.
6. The Poet’s nanny, who waits eagerly and
patiently for the boy to turn up.
“How patiently for
me you wait”
7.
8.
9. She looked through the window inorder
to see the child to come back
“ Alone beside your
window sitting ”
10.
11.
12. She curses the clock because it is too late
for the child to return home
“ You wait for me
and blame the clock ”
13.
14. with faltering wrinkled hand she knits but
because of apparent anxiety she cannot
continue the work
“ While in your wrinkled hands,
you knitting
Fitfully falters to a stop ”
15.
16. The external landscape with the
crumpling gate, the lone house deep in
the wild wood and shadowy road create a
picture of her inner mind scape haunted
by nameless forebodding and dark
anxieties which she seems to see
“ Beyond the crumbling gates
the pine trees ”
Shadow the road you watch so sell
Nameless forebodings, dark anxieties
oppress your heart; you cannot tell
“ What visions haunt you
Now you seem to see.... ”
