• 'My Heart Leaps Up' is a famous poem by William Wordsworth. - এই কবিতাটি 'The Rainbow' নামেও পরিচিত। - ১৮০২ সালে প্রকাশিত এই কবিতাটি একটি short lyric poem. - Like many of his poems from this period, "My Heart Leaps Up" was inspired by nature, as the speaker describes the feeling of joy upon seeing a simple rainbow. - The poem also appreciates the importance of carrying child-like enthusiasm and wonder throughout life, an idea that Wordsworth returns throughout much of his work.
• কবিতাটির একটি বিখ্যাত উক্তি - 'The child is the father of the Man.'
My Heart Leaps Up (Also called The Rainbow) by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
• William Wordsworth (1770 -1850) - He is one of the major poets of the Romantic Period. - William Wordsworth এবং Samuel Taylor Coleridge রচিত Lyrical Ballads এর প্রকাশনার মাধ্যমে Romantic Period এর সূচনা হয় । - Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor এর যৌথ প্রকাশনা কিন্তু এই প্রকাশনায় William Wordsworth এর অবদান ছিল সর্বোচ্চ ছিল বলে তাকে The father od Romantic Age বলা হয়।
• The only play of William Wordsworth is The Borderers. The Borderers, a tragedy in five acts, was Wordsworth's first major work.
• Famous poems of Wordsworth: - The Solitary Reaper, - Peter Bell, - The Recluse, - the World is too Much with Us, - Tintern Abbey, - Rainbow, - To The Cuckoo, - Laodamia, - Lucy Poems, - The Daffodils, - Ode on immortality, - The Excursion, - Michael etc.
Source: An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica and Website Lecture.