inmates of my cottage, all at rest, / Have left me to that solitude, which suits / Abstruser musings” (4-6). Despite the connotation of “solitude” in Romantic poetry being a positive attribute, the calm of this night is almost too much for the speaker: “’Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs / and vexes meditation with its strange / And extreme silentness” (8-10). “Abstruser musings” in line 6 refers to thoughts that are concealed, or difficult to comprehend; it could be that he is trying to…
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