A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal summery Class 9 English Chapter 10

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Stanza-1


A slumber did my spirit seal 
I had no human fears. 
She seemed a thing that could not feel 
The touch of earthly years.

Explanation: In the stanza, the poet has expressed his grief over the death of a loved one. He says that he had no usual human fears now as death is the ultimate fear for human beings. When a person is alive, then he has many apprehensions and many fears like disease, famine etc. But death makes the end of all these fears because earthly years or usual fears seem to have no effect on his beloved. She has passed away peacefully leaving everything behind.

Stanza-2


No motion has she now, no force 
She neither hears nor sees 
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course 
With rocks and stones and trees.

Explanation: In this stanza, the poet mentions that there is no motion in the body of his beloved as death has overcome her. Also, death has deprived her of her strength. She is unable to see and unable to hear. All her senses are dead now. She has adjusted herself with the routine activity of earth now. As the earth completes its routine of day and night with the rocks, stones and trees; so does the beloved of the poet now. She has become a part of the nature. The poet concludes with her afterlife.

Conclusion of A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal


A slumber did my spirit seal summary tells us about the pain of the author due to his beloved's death and how he comes to the acceptance of this harsh reality.

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