force of nature in the form of wind strikes the harp’s chimes and causes it to create music, to give expression to what would otherwise be an inexpressible force, in accordance with the harp’s own construction. The point of the analogy is clear: poetry is the result of the forces of nature moving the poet to give them literary or artistic expression. The poet is inspired by nature, not simply by way of his own emotional reaction to it but by forces that are innate within nature itself, and therefore external to him, and that move him in his works of artistic creation.
