1. The Romantic Imagination
... to the Banks of the River Wye. He remarks, "again I hear / These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs / With a sweet inland murmur, Once again / Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, / Which on a wild secluded scene impress / Thoughts of more deep seclusion" (Wordsworth, 2-7). In these lines, the neutral sound of the river and the unremarkable sight of the ... cliffs are transformed into sensations of physical and mental excitement through the adjectives "sweet," "wild," "steep," and "lofty." By conveying a sense of awe in the face of unrestrained or unbound natural ... , it...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate