"It Is A Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"

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  "It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free" is a powerful short poem written by Wordsworth writing about his experience with his daughter Caroline while walking one afternoon with her on the beach in Calais, France in August of 1802. His daughter was only 9 years old when this poem took place. Wordsworth states how she is unaware of the beauty of the moment and the amazing world that God created for man. Wordsworth uses many literary devices in the poem, most notably imagery to paint the picture to the reader as if they were walking along with Wordsworth and his daughter when this took place.
                                                
                                                                            It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, 
The holy time is quiet as a Nun 
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun 
Is sinking down in its tranquility; 
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea; 
Listen! the mighty Being is awake, 
And doth with his eternal motion make 
A sound like thunder—everlastingly. 
Dear child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, 
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, 
Thy nature is not therefore less divine: 
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; 
And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, 
God being with thee when we know it not.  


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