Question

In this poem when the speaker says he may sit and rightly spell what is he referring to?

Answer 1

In the final ten lines of the poem Il Penseroso, the poet aspires to a revelation of devine knowledge to inspire his great poetry. He will devote himself to solitude, contemplating. Among these lines he speaks about sitting in a "peacful hermitage" where "rightly spell" may refer to attachment to natural madic and an interest i the new search for an accurate scientific language. He wants to know and understand nature.