You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself