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In this stanza the poet is transported to days of his childhood when he used to listen
to the cry of the cuckoo and go a thousand ways to place the source of the voice. He
left no possible place undiscovered, be it the bushes, the trees or the sky. The tone
of the poet is overtly nostalgic in these lines as he clearly expresses his unfulfilled
desire to get a glimpse of the origin of the voice that he remembers from his
boyhood. So desperate was the poet to locate the bird that he scourged all possible
nooks and crannies in his endeavour to get visual satisfaction. The cuckoo’s voice
had fascinated the poet and fired his need to locate the bird so that he could see for
himself, the source of such melody.

Stanza-6

Wordsworth addresses the bird, telling him how much finding him means to him. The
poet wandered constantly, looking for the bird in woods, anywhere and everywhere.
This is an indication of the poets dedication towards locating the source of the voice.
Despite being unsuccessful in the past, the poet hasn’t given up and says that he still
hopes to find the bird. Wordsworth has also confessed his love for the cuckoo bird.
This is actually a good indicator of the attachment he had with the cuckoo’s voice as
the fact that he has never seen the bird doesn’t deter him from loving the cuckoo. In
the last line of the poem, the poet States that he still yearns to find the word and see
for him that there is more to the cuckoo than just his voice. The poet hasn’t lost hope
yet and still wants to find his love.

Stanza-7

With this stanza, the poet again travels back to the present and says that he can still
listen to the cuckoo, lying on the ground and produce memories of his childhood.
This stanza is in actuality a whole sentence, and cannot be interpreted line wise.
Wordsworth was a romantic poet, and by labeling his childhood as the “golden time”
he confines this to his romantic genre of poetry. Like gold, he implies that his
childhood was precious to him and that he wants to relive the moments of his
schoolboy days by lying down on the grass and listening to the voice of the cuckoo.
The poet is nostalgic and wants to conjure up memories of his childhood by relying
on the cuckoo’s cry.

Stanza-8

“Blessed” encompasses the poet’s love and devotion towards the cuckoo.
Wordsworth calls the earth “unsubstantial”,that is an unrealistic place of fairies. This
could be because the earth has mesmerizing elements of nature, like the sky,
woods, rivers, valleys, but at the same time is plagued by restrictions of industrial life
which curbs the freedom of an individual. A place with such enchanting
contradictions is place that is fit for the cuckoo. The use of the term “again” alludes to
the fact that with the arrival of the cuckoo, the earth takes on such a guise. He poet
could also be saying that the earth, that is so versatile, is the perfect dwelling for the
cuckoo as he too is full of contradictions. He stirs visions from the poet’s childhood
and makes him nostalgic, but is he never to be seen