The poem "To the Cuckoo" is written by William Wordsworth, the famed Romantic poet who is also known as Nature poet. The poem is all about the admiration of Cuckoo bird and how its voice affects positively on the poet. It cheers the mood of the poet and takes him to his childhood memories.
It again confirms Wordsworth's known love for nature. It has eight-stanza with a recurring rhyme scheme of abab.
Wordsworth addresses the Cuckoo bird and praises its lovely voice which fills him with joy. He calls it a "wandering Voice" because it sings its song wherever it goes.
Cuckoo flies from hills to hills mesmerising the landscape with the song. He can hear the bird's voice while lying on the grass.
It occurs to him that the cuckoo is communicating with the valley of sunshine and flowers but it also arises visionary tales in his mind, for hours he sit and visualise.
For Wordsworth, the cuckoo is not just an ordinary bird, he finds something mysterious in the bird. He gladly welcomes it, calling it "darling of the Spring".
He reminisces his childhood when he used to hear its voice and how it made him look at Nature (bush, tree, sky) in a thousand different ways. In other words, He learnt to gain different perspectives from ordinary things of nature.
He adds that how he did try to find the bird in the woods and like a rare object, it was a hope (a desirous thing) to find it. He longed to find it then but remain unsuccessful.
And at present, he can listen to its voice while resting on the plain till he can remember those old childhood days from his memories.
The bird is pronounced as "blessed bird" by Wordsworth. He calls the bird to stay on earth because the coming of cuckoo makes it an idealistically unreal and fairy place.
