The words chosen by the poet infers that the religion and nature are highly connected and nature’s beauty comes from the Being. The ‘holy time’ is ‘quite as a nun’ and the metaphor of ‘mighty being is awake’ perhaps suggest that the Creator shows his presence with the natural incidents. The sea metaphor and the sound of it indicates that the existence of the nature, its voice, its effects, all of them are referring the God. The sound of the sea literally will be ‘everlastingly’, and for the peole who have belief in them it is one of the signs of the existence of the creator like other natural incidents. The sunset described as ‘heaven broods o’er the sea’ which again repeating the idea of God’s creation and appreciation of it deeply. Nun described as ‘breathless with adoration’ and ‘quiet’ which probably suggests the state of mind of the poet at that moment.
The second part of the poem, sestet, is concentrated to the child, ‘the girl’ particularly. The poet states that the girl is with him at that moment and as the lines progress, the contact of the religion and the nature becomes clearer.
Poet indicates that the belief of creator is not particularly connected with religion, therefore even the girl has not any knowledge about any religion or thought about it, she is still has the knowledge of the Creator’s being, the existence of God. Therefore her nature is not ‘less divine’.
The allusion to the Abraham, the prophet who founds the Creator with looking to nature and appreciating its uniqueness by his own mind, is suggesting that the child is like him, the girl knows the existence of a creator by looking the nature, observing it, by loving it. She has an inner piece, her soul which is connected with the God, and by the innocence of childhood, this part of her is religiuos and pure. The religious belief is also supports Wordsworth’s this idea, according to many religion the children are pure and innocent and therefore religious, and sinless. The climax of the poem, is the sestet, suggests that the poet believes the nature is mirroring the creator, the whole poem indicates that and with the last part of the poem, the idea becomes more powerful. According to Wordsworth ‘solemn thought’ is not particularly connected with a religious place or act, observing the nature and understanding the magnificence and appreciating it like Abraham did, makes the person believe the God and therefore divine. The metaphor ‘Temple’s inner shrine’ refers that people pray and love the creator with their heart, and with the last line this metaphor is continued, other poeple thinks that the God is not with her however she is always with creator deep down and people do not conceive this.
The poem is structured as sonnet, which is exist of an octat and sestet, the first part explainf the thought of Wordsworth about religion and nature, the latter depicts the girl’s part at the thoughts of Wordsworth. The rhyme scheme abbcaaacc and dccdce emphasises the idea of tranquil nature and its relationship with religion, it sounds calm and serene, at last lines, the rhyme on ‘divine’ and ‘shrine’ draws the words together in meaning as in sound.
