If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature’s holy plan. (a) What does ‘heaven’ refer to?

Question

Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow.

If this belief from heaven be sent, 

If such be Nature’s holy plan.

(a) What does ‘heaven’ refer to?

(b) Why does the poet call it ‘holy’?

Answer 1

(a) Heaven refers to the natural source, the heaven, (i.e) God that created life on the earth.

(b) The poet believes that the harmonious, peaceful and happy co-existence of birds, plants, trees and brooks soothes the troubled mind of man. So, the poet feels as if he were inside a sacred place when he is in the woods. So, he calls the plan ‘holy’.