Most Sweet It Is
Most Sweet It Is - form Summary
Sonnet of Inner Imagination
This poem is a sonnet that argues the mind’s inner life sustains poetic feeling even when external beauty is absent. Wordsworth presents imagined consolation through Fancy, Thought, and Love, then uses the sonnet’s closing lines as a decisive resolution: because Thought and Love remain, the mind will still shed inspiration. The compressed sonnet form focuses the movement from observation to moral claim about imagination’s primacy.
Read Complete AnalysesMost sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none, While a fair region round the traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone. If Thought and Love desert us, from that day Let us break off all commerce with the Muse: With Thought and Love companions of our way, Whate'er the senses take or may refuse, The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay.
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