Insomnia in Wordsworths To Sleep

In his poem, "To Sleep," Wordsworth talks about how he can't seem to fall asleep. He never tells us why, but maybe it's because he doesn't know. There probably was a significant event that he experienced that has either affected him psychologically that he doesn't know would affect him, or he has opted to not tell us about it. Either way, his insomnia isn't an uncommon thing. Insomnia is a condition in which a person …

…is not an illness that can be cured by a sleeping pill. Sleeping disorders are usually divided into three kinds. The first kind are the Insomnias, which are a group of problems producing difficulty in falling asleep or difficulty in staying asleep. The second is hypersomnolence, characterized by too much sleep, or sleepiness when a person does not want to sleep. The third is episodic nocturnal events, disorders such as night terrors, nightmares, and sleepwalking.