It is more likely to be an abstract existence with all admirable values. In the tenth stanza, the man's figure supports the excessive weight that his physical body can hardly support. Then he became the motionless cloud, which possesses no physical form, in the eleventh stanza, when he stood among the moors. Any visual representation of the leech man had been diminished in the sixteenth stanza, accompanied by the return of Wordsworth's thoughts. The leech collector was transformed into a stream, “like the one that [the poet] had encountered in a dream (305)”. To some extent, the missing man was referring to the appearance of an awakening inspiration, which is the same as the motivation that drives the poet to create new poems. So this man could be the fullest perception and subsequent expectation of Wordsworth himself in writing.