Title: My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth | Poem Analysis
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Content: His sense of wonder began when he was born and persisted throughout his childhood, into his adulthood. Wordsworth has been a fan of nature from the very start. So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! Wordsworth gets a bit extreme in these lines. First, he states that he hopes to continue to be mesmerized by nature well into old age. Then, he says “Or let me die!” The fairly unambiguous interpretation here is that the poet would rather die than find the world around him boring and bereft of beauty. Death would be preferable to becoming a jaded cynic who cannot grasp the wonder of nature. The Child is father of the Man; This is, perhaps, the most important line of My Heart Leaps Up.