Ponds are frequently human-constructed. In the countryside farmers and villagers dig a pond in their backyard or increase the depth of an existing pond by removing layers of mud during summer season. A wide variety of artificial bodies of water are classified as ponds.
In Act 4, Scene 5, Queen Gertrude has an aside, and she speaks directly to the audience saying âTo my sick soul, as sinâs true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spiltâ (17-20).
At first, in fact, Wordsworth had thought Nutting would have a natural place in The Prelude, but he later struck it out, as not being wanted there. It's easy to see the rightness of that conclusion. Nutting is a self-contained narrative, as complete and satisfying as a fairy-story told by the Brothers Grimm.