Analysis of a poem

However, when she dies, the narrator is quite shocked that the woman who was ?beyond the touch of earthly years? could succumb to old age or death. There seems to be only two characters in the story-the narrator and the woman. When she dies, his only consolation is the one you couldn't argue with until this century: matter can be neither created nor destroyed, and she lives on with the rock, stones and trees. It can also be said that the narrator is perhaps Wordsworth himself. Quatrains follow a variety of rhyme schemes. While a bit cumbersome to understand at first, if the audience will simply sit down and read the poem a few times over, it is quite easy to be sucked into the world that Wordsworth comes up with and become a ?witness? of sorts to the scenes that he creates. This appears to be revealed in the first stanza. No mention has she now, no force;? The meaning behind that is the sudden change from happiness and bliss to cold sadness and mourning. A quatrain is a poem or stanza that consists of four lines. There is no explanation of how she died-was it by natural causes, suicide, murder, illness, etc. The way in which this poem is arranged is useful as it adds to the suspense and makes the reader decide for herself about what may or may not be going on. It contains two quatrains, one in each stanza. The theme of the poem is that death comes without notice. The symbolism of ?earth?s diurnal course? is the circle (or cycle) of life, a possible reference to the spiritual rebirth of our body (a biblical view says that our bodies were created from the dirt on the ground, and that when we die, in essence, our bodies return to the dirt). The ending, in relation to the other parts of the poem, seemed to have the same style and tone as the second stanza-mournful and full of remorse.