"Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side,
Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm..."
The narrator mentions he was raised in the city. He begins to predict how his baby's child-hood will be growing up in a place with, "lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds". The seasons are described at the end of the poem:
"Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon."The description in the poem allows you to recall moments in your life, in which you have felt what is being described, and apply it to the story. It allows for a great range of possible meanings to the story. "Fill up the intersperséd vacancies and momentary pauses of the thought!" This is exactly what you must do in order to gain anything from this poem. You must use what you know to fill in the blanks. All of this is due to description.
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