Where are you, little I?

  • This poem is related to nature and its effect on the speaker.
  • Which contains only eight lines.
  • The main theme of this poem is freshness of beautiful nature and its positive effect on the humans.
  • This poem opens with the speaker standing near a window and looking out of it, at the end of a day.
  • He goes to a nostalgic mood, recalling his childhood, when he used to watch a sunset thoughtfully.
  • He remembers how he used to enjoy such a beauty when he used to be a little boy of five or six years.
  • It is a wonder that he still has youthful presence in himself.
  • This presence can recognize the beauty of the evening.
  • Perhaps in his inner heart he wants to come out, but his maturity and adulthood doesn’t allow him, to do so.
  • The poet has beautifully described a little boy, his location and his acts of peering in (looking) and feeling about beautiful and wonderful nature. 
  • He has presented his experiences of childhood closely connected with nature.
  • He has presented himself as a little i or a boy of five or six years old who keeps on peering beautiful golden sunset of November through some high window and pondering about the wonderful transformation of the day into night in a very beautiful way.

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