This poem's speaker recalls his eye being "fixed with mock study on [his] swimming book." The speake
This poem's speaker recalls his eye being "fixed with mock study on [his] swimming book." The speaker of this poem tells its addressee that he "shalt wander like a breeze by lakes and sandy shore, beneath the crags of ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds." This poem invokes a "great universal Teacher" who "shall mould thy spirit, and by giving make it ask." At the beginning of this poem, the speaker is startled by an owlet's re- peated cry as he watches his infant son Hartley sleep. This poem's title phenomenon "performs its secret min- istry, unhelped by any wind," and hangs up the eave-drops "in silent icicles." For 10 points, name this conversa- tion poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.