This Poem is highly mystical.
"My love has talk'd with rocks and trees."
His own affection for Hallam seems to personate the object of his
attachment, and "sees himself in all he sees." Just as the giant spectre,
sometimes seen "on misty mountain-ground,"[70] is no more than the vast
shadow of the spectator himself.
The Poem proceeds more intelligibly, by drawing a comparison which
typifies his own humble relation to his exalted friend. He imagines some
meek-hearted and affectionate wife loving and revering a husband, whose
high intellect and pursuits exclude her from any real companionship.
But she treasures any little memorials of their early devotion, and
feeling that he is
"great and wise,
She dwells on him with faithful eyes,
'I cannot understand: I love.'"
It must be understood that this Poem, as elsewhere, would describe _the
relation of one on earth to one in the other and higher world--not the
Author's relation to him here. He certainly looked up to the Author, fully
as much as the Author to him._