'To A Skylark' by P B Shelley: First Stanza Explained Thoroughly
Explain the first stanza of Shelley’s To A Skylark.
Or
Elucidate
Stanza 1 from To A Skylark by
Shelley.
Hail to thee, blithe
Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near
it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated
art.
These lines, extracted from
the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s To
A Skylark, constitute the first stanza of the poem.
As we see, the skylark has been addressed to be the ‘blithe Spirit’ by the poet. That is to say, as the word ‘blithe’ means ‘merry’ or ‘happy-go-lucky’, it refers to the fact that the ‘Spirit’—with the first letter of the word in the upper case—is a source of utmost cheer and mirth. Moreover, when we come to notice that the initial letter of the word called ‘Spirit’ has been capitalised, we can make out that this skylark is no ordinary bird. It is as if a divine agent instead. Hence, the poet hails or welcomes the ‘blithe Spirit’ with endless honour and divine glory.
Then, in Line 2, the poet realises that it is not necessarily a bird; it is rather the embodiment of a divine soul. In this connection, it must be noted that the word ‘Heaven’ solidifies the divine features of the bird even more.
The divine soul,
thus, pours out its entire ‘heart’ in the melody of its ‘profuse strains’ that is
always ‘unpremeditated’. That is to say, the divine source of the divine joy enhances
the divine effect to us with the aid of the unrehearsed or the unplanned melody
of the bird. Well, most conspicuously, the so-called bird pours out its entire
heart impeccably to regale the earth.
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