that he is thinking about his sister because hesays,” For still I hoped to see the stranger’s face,Townsman, aunt, or sister more beloved. My playmate when wewere clothed alike!”In the next paragraph he brings his attention back ontohis infant son, and also takes the reader to the futuretense. He begins to think of his son’s future and how heshall grow to learn more then he has. For example he says,”My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart With tendergladness, thus to look at the, And think that thou shaltlearn far other lore”(lines 48-50). He also brings hisattention onto God, and his influence that his teachingswill have on his son. He speaks, in lines 51-53, how he isunable to see the how lovely nature is, he says ” And farother scenes! For I was reared In great city, pent’midcloisters dim, And saw nought, lovely but sky and stars.” Hegoes onto to saw how that will be different for his son, hesays, But thou, my babe! shalt not wander like breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags, of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores, and mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible.(lines 54-59)He lets the reader know that he will be able to do thisthrough God.Finally, in his last paragraph he simply his starting hiscycle over, and he takes the reader back to were he starts thepoem. For example the opening line in the poem is “The frostperforms its secret ministry”, and the third to the last linestates the same thing. Through the use of the word ministry thereader may conclude that he is basically talking about aspiritual teaching and growth with in himself. ...
