1. growth of the poet’s Mind
4 th stage
Over Whelmed With Joy
of Nature

2. “oh there is blessing in the gentle breeze”
“while the sweet breath of Heaven was blowing on my
body, felt within a corresponding mild creative
breeze.
 Longs walks early in the morning.
 Sitting on rock at dawn.
How shall I trace the history, where seek
The origin of what I then have felt? 370
Oft in these moments such a holy calm
Did overspread my soul, that I forgot
That I had bodily eyes, and what I saw
Appear’d like something in myself, a dream,
A prospect in my mind.

3. “underline unity in all things in
universe”
• Sacred tranquillity
• Awareness of his bodily entity
• Outward object become a part of his spiritual self
• Unaware of independent existence
• Bodily faculty suspended
• Supreme happiness
“for in all things now I saw one life,
and felt that it was joy”

4. “interchange” or mysticism
• Merging of inner and outer.
• Imagination
• One with nature
• Senses over contemplation
• Reality exhibited through nature.

5. Gratitude to Nature
• For nurturing him.
• Solace for disturbed and sad hearts.
• Spiritual intercourse with nature and God.
• Victum to dispair.
• If, in my youth, I have been pure in heart,
If, mingling with the world, I am content
With my own modest pleasures, and have liv'd,
With God and Nature communing, remov'd
From little enmities and low desires,
The gift is yoursFaith in human nature....
• A more than Roman confidence, a faith
That fails not, in all sorrow my support,
The blessing of my life, the gift is yours,

6. Philosophy of faith
• His soul merges with nature and then merges
with God.
• Creed in three (God, Man and nature)
• Source of inspiration and knowledge
• Greatness of human mind
• Mysterious strength from nature
• Egotism
• Christian humility