Point of View

The poem is essentially a monologue delivered from the first person singular point of view. As such, the speaker establishes a more intimate exchange between themselves and the reader. The first person point of view allows the speaker to communicate their thoughts clearly and uninhibited by other voices or characters. Rather than tell the story of someone or something else, the speaker tells their own story. In this case, the speaker’s story is more of an emotional narrative than an event-based narrative. Thus, the first person point of view gives us unmediated access to the speaker’s innermost thoughts and emotions as they pertain to the subject matter.

The speaker’s love and reverence for nature primarily characterizes their perspective. They establish this love of nature in the first two lines of the poem as they describe their elation at the sight of a...