My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold and" on Children" are ones that continue to inspire debates among

critics. William Wordsworth is a Romantic poet and in this poem he has expressed his feeling and his joy
as he beholds the Nature. In his famous contradictory line he says "The child is the father of a
man".according to Victorian Veb "William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth,
Cumberland, to John and Anne (Cookson) Wordsworth the second of their five children.After his
mother's death in 1778 he was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School, near Windermere; in 1787 he went
up to St. John's College, Cambridge.He enjoyed hiking: during the "long" (i.e., summer) vacation of 1788
he tramped around Cumberland county; two years later went on a walking tour of France, Switzerland,
and Germany; and in 1791, after graduation, trekked through Wales.His enthusiasm for the French
Revolution took him to France again in 1791, where he had an affair with Annette Vallon, who bore him
an illegitimate daughter, Caroline, in 1792. Having run out of money, Wordsworth returned to England
the following year, and the Anglo-French war, following the Reign of Terror, prevented his return for nine
years.In 1794 he was reunited with his sister Dorothy, who became his companion, close friend, moral
support, and housekeeper until her physical and mental decline in the 1830s. The next year he met
Coleridge, and the three of them grew very close, the two men meeting daily in 1797-98 to talk about
poetry and to plan Lyrical Ballads, which came out in 1798. The three friends traveled to Germany that
fall, a trip that produced intellectual stimulation for Coleridge and homesickness for Wordsworth. After
their return, William and Dorothy settled in his beloved Lake district, near Grasmere.Wordsworth's
literary career began with Descriptive Sketches (1793) and reached an early climax before the turn of the
century, with Lyrical Ballads. His powers peaked with Poems in Two Volumes (1807), and his reputation
continued to grow; even his harshest reviewers recognized his popularity and the originality.The
important later works were well under way. His success with shorter forms made him the more eager to
succeed with longer, specifically with a long, three-part "philosophical poem, containing views of Man,
Nature, and Society, . . having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in
retirement." The 17,000 lines which were eventually published made up only a part of this mammoth
project. The second section, The Excursion, was completed (pub. 1814), as was the first book of the first
part, The Recluse. During his lifetime he refused to print The Prelude, which he had completed by 1805,
because he thought it was unprecedented for a poet to talk as much about himself — unless he could
put it in its proper setting, which was as an introduction to the complete three-part Recluse".

Children poem is so overwhelming. It talks about unique personality of children.It also clarifies the
responsibility of parents, as a gardener. Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet,and writer.He
was born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a
literary and political rebellion.As same as Wordsworth he was a Romantic writer and the heart of a
renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially in writing prose and poetry, he took a far step from
the classical school.He is chiefly known in the English world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early
example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English
prose.Gibran has got Romantic views. And his ideas as a philosepher affected arab's literature.In the
second part of this essay we have a look at Wordsworth's and Gibran's two poems named My Heart
Leaps Up When I Behold and children and every elements and aspects of them.By this we want to look
at the world in the way These two great men did.
 William Wordsworth is a Romantic poet who belongs to the early period of the French Revolution. He is
the Lake School poet, that is he loves Nature. He makes an inseparable relationship between human and
Nature. From the first time a human comes to this world, he feels Nature and as a result of this his sole
fulfills with joy. The man wants to be with incredible joy every moment of his life and he believes when
this relationship is cut it's time to die. In other words, living without direct contact with Nature is
meaningless.Vernon Hall in the book " A Short History Of Literary Criticism" says ;" From what
Wordsworth says of the birth and nature of poetry, this pattern seems to emerge. The poet looks at
Nature.His emotions are aroused. In tranquility he recalls his emotions. These emotions are made into a
poem with the help of images of those things in Nature which aroused the poet's emotion in the first
place."This poem is full of happiness, it seems that for a Lake Romantic poet life means only beauty. This
poem is like a movie that contains all the time a human lives from childhood to death, but here a
beautiful paradox stimulates us; " A Child is a Father of a man" . Wordsworth wants to say that every
man is borne from a child, that is all the humans have experienced childhood. All the treasures that
Today Man has, are because of experiences of Yesterday Child. Each pure spot on the sole of the man is
because of the complete pure white sole that the child had. Later by later this sole is losing its innocence
and turning to a man. That's why a man always owes to his own childhood. We can find the vast portion
of William Wordsworth's mental apparatus in view of Freud diagram, that is the relationship between
ego, id and superego. As Freud says, the id is the primary source of all psychic energy and it functions to
fulfill the pleasure principle. In " A Handbook Of Critical Approaches to Literature" the id "is
characterized by a tremendous and amorphous vitality. Speaking metaphorically, Freud explains this
"obscure inaccessible part of our personality" as "a chaos, a cauldron of seething excitement with no
organization and no unified will, only an impulsion to obtain satisfaction for the instinctual needs, in
accordance with the pleasure principle." The impulsion in the poem happens when Wordsworth beholds
a rainbow in the sky then satisfaction happens after this, that is when His heart leaps up. The id in
children is more active than adults and it is not been under the control of ego and superego that's why
the poet always adores childhood. There should be other psychic agencies, that which protects the
individual, the first one is ego. It is rational ,Freud calls it "The Dissection psychical Personality", it stands
for good sense.According to " A Handbook Of Critical Approaches to Literature": "And though a large
portion of the ego is unconscious the ego nevertheless comprises what we ordinary think of as the
conscious mind.Whereas the id is governed solely by the pleasure principle, the ego is governed by the
reality principle and super ego is dominated by morality principle." So id, ego and superego all needful
for keeping human healthy although we find out that maybe William Wordsworth would like the id but
he had somehow believed in ego and superego because he says: And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety. I as a modern reader define Natural Piety as Balance between id,
ego and superego.This is a fantastic poem full of hidden meaning in its big heart.

In this section I have a special look at the poem " On Children". Gibran expresses his feeling about
parenthood so perfectly. He says: "Your children are not your children they are sons and daughters of
life's longing for itself". The first picture came to my mind by reading this line was "The Short Tour And
Farewell" which its painter is Raymond Douillet.The painting shows the survey of human life from the
moment of giving birth to when little by little his body come to decadence. Each level of life is shown by
singular person, there are some children in the painting they grow up and become young men and
women. Men are playing musical instruments and women are dancing. In the next level they fell in love
and become spouses. Then they grow older and become lonely. At the end they are going to go at the
womb of a woman's body figure which is gray and it seems made of stone. Maybe it is the symbol of
mother Nature. Our life consists of Nature so the children are sons and daughters of life. A woman gives
birth to child but there is a creator behind this mother that controls all these Nature happens. All the
things belongs to Him. I think that Gibran doesn't want to separate Nature from God. As a Romantic
writer he sees God in every creature. As Hegel says the Creator always wants to be more perfect himself,
as a result he makes the world more perfect. Parents have the responsibility of taking care of children
and make some places for children to practice their soles. Children should find their own way. They
belongs to future that's why mothers and fathers should try to become up-to date.The picture of bow,
arrow and Archer makes a beautiful metaphor of parents, children, and God in our mind. The word
stable is used in the last line to show that parents' love should be as stable as God's and they should
have stable manner too. It means human must obey id, ego and superego in the best way.

Both of these works are worth to think about and write thousand of essays about them. Their points of
view is unique and belong only to them self. Their poems are tools for knowing the world and ourselves
better.