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TO THE TORRENT AT THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE, NORTH WALES, 1842 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW ART THOU NAMED? IN SEARCH OF WHAT STRANGE LAND
Last Line: OVER THE MINDS OF POETS, YOUNG OR OLD!
Subject(s): WALES; WELSHMEN; WELSHWOMEN;
HOW art thou named? In search of what strange land
From what huge height, descending? Can such force
Of waters issue from a British source,
Or hath not Pindus fed thee, where the band
Of Patriots scoop their freedom out, with hand
Desperate as thine? Or come the incessant shocks
From that young Stream, that smites the throbbing rocks
Of Viamala? There I seem to stand,
As in life's morn; permitted to behold,
From the dread chasm, woods climbing above woods,
In pomp that fades not; everlasting snows;
And skies that ne'er relinquish their repose;
Such power possess the family of floods
Over the minds of Poets, young or old!




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