A Thing Of Beauty |Summary | Class 12 | Notes

A Thing of Beauty

Theme Of the Poem

Any beautiful object is always treasured in our mind because it provides us eternal and everlasting joy. The happiness that a beautiful object provides,never fades into nothingness but multiples manifold whenever it returns to our mind. In the poem, the poet says thet a thing of beauty is a joy forever a joy in the admist of disease, suffering and disappointment of life. The object of beauty makes a lasting impression on us and gives us joy even when they are not present before our eyes. The joy that they give never fades into nothingness, but increases whenever they flash across our minds..

Summary 

A things of beauty.............quiet breathing

• According to  poet, a beautiful thing is a source of eternal Joy and its loveliness only grows with time and never fades.
• He says that this loveliness will never pass into nothingness and will provide us a cool, pleasant shady place which will give us good health,sound sleep and mental peace.

Therefore.............forest brake

• This stanja tell us some of the beautiful things on Earth 
• The examples cited by the poet are such: the sun the moon, trees that are old or young sprout to make a green covering which becomes a shelter for a simple sheep and provide cool shelter to sleep, the daffodils enclosed in green leaves and the clear rill or the streams with clear water make a cooling shelter for themselves against a hot season. 
• Sun,moon,the tress the innocence of sheep ,the blossoming of daffodils in the meadows, the musk roses blooming p, the mass of ferns and the clear streams among mountain are the things of beauty enlisted by the poet in the poem 

Rich with.......... heaven's brinks

• The fragrance of the musk blooms along with all the objects of beauty that the nature provide us lift the human spirit fillings it with joy and delight 
• Along with these the wonderful tales of te legendary heroes who lived and died heroically are some things that inspire us with their beauty.
• These beautiful things are the part of the endless fountain of immortal drink that is pouring unto us from the heaven's brink directly .
• Meaning that these beautiful things bring eternal joy for the soul's grandeur,they are everlasting and a gift from heaven to us. 

Word Meaning 

1. Bower - A pleasant shady place under tree
2. Sprounting - Producing 
3. Boon - Blessings 
4. Rills - Smalk streams
5. Brake - A thick mass of bushes
6. Grandeur -  impressive 
7. Brink  - Extreame edge