The poem starts with a laying in a grove hearing music, which make them feel happy until the rememberance of ...
"What has man made of man." line 8
(a pun for man made) brings back some sad memories. The persona, really feels linked to nature (pathetic fallacy) but modernisation has severed their tie with nature.
The boundary in this poem acually isn't a boundary but the lack of one as shown in the fourth stanza...
"The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:-
But least the motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure."
There is a rhyme scheme in this poem, it being 'abab' (that is for the first stanza other wise I'd end up filling the page... maybe :-] )
Michael Parkes 8.1
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