31. Explain the line. Notice the poetical way in which the poet conveys the idea of solitude, (l. 30-32).
33. FAIRY WATER-BREAKS=wavelets, ripples. Cf.:—
Many a silvery water-break
Above the golden gravel.
Tennyson, The Brook.
36. FLEECED WITH MOSS. Suggest a reason why the term "fleeced" has peculiar appropriateness here.
39-40. Paraphrase these lines to bring out their meaning.
43-48. THEN UP I ROSE. Contrast this active exuberant pleasure not unmixed with pain with the passive meditative joy that the preceding lines express.
47-48. PATIENTLY GAVE UP THEIR QUIET BEING. Notice the attribution of life to inanimate nature. Wordsworth constantly held that there was a mind and all the attributes of mind in nature. Cf. l. 56, "for there is a spirit in the woods."
53. AND SAW THE INTRUDING SKY. Bring out the force of this passage.
54. THEN, DEAREST MAIDEN. This is a reference to the poet's Sister, Dorothy Wordsworth.
56. FOR THERE IS A SPIRIT IN THE WOODS. Cf. Tintern Abbey, 101 f.