The poem describes the narrator's sense of isolation and difference from others from a young age. As a child, the narrator was drawn to mysteries in nature like storms, lightning, and clouds rather than finding joy in what others did. This early sense of being apart from others and drawn to the mysteries of "good and ill" has continued to bind the narrator throughout their life.
The poem describes the narrator's sense of isolation and difference from others from a young age. As a child, the narrator was drawn to mysteries in nature like storms, lightning, and clouds rather than finding joy in what others did. This early sense of being apart from others and drawn to the mysteries of "good and ill" has continued to bind the narrator throughout their life.
The poem describes the narrator's sense of isolation and difference from others from a young age. As a child, the narrator was drawn to mysteries in nature like storms, lightning, and clouds rather than finding joy in what others did. This early sense of being apart from others and drawn to the mysteries of "good and ill" has continued to bind the narrator throughout their life.
From childhoods hour I have not been As others wereI have not seen As others sawI could not bring My passions from a common spring From the same source I have not taken My sorrowI could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone And all I lovdI lovd alone Thenin my childhoodin the dawn Of a most stormy lifewas drawn From evry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still From the torrent, or the fountain From the red cliff of the mountain From the sun that round me rolld In its autumn tint of gold From the lightning in the sky As it passd me flying by From the thunder, and the storm And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view