...spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees. Critics who have discussed this poem have divided between those who read it...

...spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. (1969, 149) De Man finds in the lyric "two stages of consciousness, one belonging...

...author. Première Lettre sur Oedipe, preface (footnote) (2nd edition, 1719). Works, vol. 1 (1785). 16 No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, (1770-1850) British poet. "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,"...

...spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees. (HBLT 154) Here is the "impassioned, meditative poetic voice" (of the poet who...

...spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. COMPOSED 1799; PUBLISHED 1800. This poem, along with "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden...

...spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. Examining the temporal structure of this text, we can point to the successive...

...I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motlon has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees;...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. 12840 'The Tables Turned' One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more...

...spirit seal; I had no human fears; She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. Sudden death does not wound either the loved person or the lover. The relation...

...spirit seal; I had no human fears; She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. Traditionally the poem has been read as an elegy, a memorial to a girl who died...

...space in which this poem ends resembles that which Wordsworth (1984: 147) envisions in the Lucy poems: No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees. Hughes deploys this Wordsworthian projection of loss onto the natural landscape...