Hyperdetailed illustration of poem, (at that time the sheep called to him From their wormy bellies, as they Lay bloating in the field. He was A pastoralist, The schoolhouse hardly handsize In a sky of flax), pastoral landscape, vivid imagery conveying a sense of isolation and loneliness, A ((pastoralist)) in his remote and desolate surroundings, (Shepard's crook), flaxen sky, ((bloated sheep lay)) in his field, desolation and decay, (tiny schoolhouse in the distance).