"Flow" is the word that in my opinion best reflects the core meaning of Wordsworth's work the Sonnet on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress. William Wordsworth in this work focuses on his platonic relationship with his beloved author. As he sees Miss Helen weep he gets engaged in a closer encounter which is based on forming the emotional connection, and energy flow between him and Miss Helen. Wordsworth, by developing the strong emotional connection, is allowed to become one with his beloved author. He feels what she feels, they share the emotion and tears. They get entangled in this beautiful, erotic, emotional spiral which makes their bodies and minds work and exist in harmony. Carried away by the heavenly cloud of sensibility, Wordsworth's heart stops beating for a sweet moment just to start beating again and to carry the sensible, dreamlike experience in his veins. Wordsworth doesn't want it to end. He doesn't want the night to end, by expressing that he also shows the fact that he realizes that it is just a moment, and their bond is only visible in those special moments like the one in the sonnet. Their bond is only visible for a moment just as the stars are visible with the absence of the sun.
This is well written and makes a good point about the poem. I only wish you;d tied your own characterization of their entanglement to the words and images of the poem a little more directly.
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