This poem describes the speaker drawing near to his lover's house. The speaker proclaims that he has been the victim of "strange fits of passion" and he will describe these "in the Lover's ear alone." The speaker loved a beautiful girl Lucy and the poem describes how he traveled to her cottage one night beneath the moon. The speaker is overcome by passionate thought realising how horrifying it would be if she were dead. The speaker's "strange fit" is the terrible, frightening thought of his lover dying. .
In this poem Wordsworth explores ideas about the intensity of passion humans can feel for each other, as well as how this human emotion is affected by the natural world surrounding them. Wordsworth explores the human feelings of fear and morbid fantasy that strike him from time to time. By describing these feelings as "strange" in the title and first line, the reader eventually comes to the realisation by the end of the poem that these feelings are indeed not strange and can mostly identify similar feelings of their own they experience. So the reader comes to identify with the speaker and his emotions showing how humans share common fears and passions. The reader sees how nature is connected with human emotion when the speaker is moved by what he sees around him, the moon, hills, cottage amongst the orchards all contribute to these thoughts and passions sliding into his head.
Wordsworth builds up the poem and conveys his ideas very effectively using language, structure and features of poetry. Wordsworth creates the feeling of a evolving story, drawing the reader in, especially with his manipulation of the poem's pace and suspense. The opening stanza gives a sense of secrecy and mystery with use of the words "dare" and "in the lover's ear alone." The pace then quickens throughout the poem highlighted by the horse's "quickening pace" and "my horse moved on; hoof after hoof." Wordsworth suggests impending darkness with the "evening moon" adding to the suspense slowly, step by step, though it is not yet threatening.
Wordsworth and Writing his Defense What is love? ... This is the way Wordsworth was able to write these poems from a mother's perspective. ... Once his mother dies, Wordsworth's alliance with nature is essentially unmediated. ... Wordsworth). ... Maybe Wordsworth did leave Vallon for another love "poetry. ...
William Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is considered one of the best poems in history. ... The language that Wordsworth used in this poem, is very simple yet very powerful. ... For example Wordsworth used personification to tell that the daffodils were "fluttering" and "dancing" in the breeze, or how the lake waves and his heart "dance". Wordsworth used similes as well, for example the title of the poem is a simile itself "I wandered lonely AS a cloud" or "Continuous AS the stars that shine.... Some sound devices tha...
Analysis of "Tintern Abbey" Whereas most individuals tend to see nature as a playhouse that should alter and self-destruct to their every need, William Wordsworth had a very different view. ... Wordsworth wrote this poem, as cited by Wordsworth without " any part of it was written down till I reached Bristol" (F.W. ... Wordsworth attempts to compare and contrast two worlds, Brian Barbour states "Wordsworth's basic strategy is to appeal to the spiritual while remaining entirely within the natural order"(Barbour p.154). ... Wordsworth grew and changed dramatically maturing spiritually, men...
Analysis of "Tintern Abbey" Whereas most individuals tend to see nature as a playhouse that should alter and self-destruct to their every need, William Wordsworth had a very different view. ... Wordsworth wrote this poem, as cited by Wordsworth without " any part of it was written down till I reached Bristol" (F.W. ... Wordsworth attempts to compare and contrast two worlds, Brian Barbour states "Wordsworth's basic strategy is to appeal to the spiritual while remaining entirely within the natural order"(Barbour p.154). ... Wordsworth grew and changed dramatically maturing spiritually, men...
The extent of analysis, allowed me to realize appreciation is closely tied to emotions. ... This, to an extent, is similar to Wordsworth personifying daffodils when he writes, "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" (12), except he saturates his writing with figures of speech unlike Stevens. ... However Wordsworth may have gone a little overboard. ... This ocean being compared with is very likely non-existent and it is very likely this entire poem is about a plain garden and the beauty Wordsworth sees in it. ... Therefore Wordsworth must be given the benefit of the doubt, as we,...
The World Is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth-1807 The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! ... Theme The modern men are forfeiting their souls by being insensitive to the richness of Nature General Meaning "The World Is Too Much With Us" criticizes what Wordsworth saw as the degenerate material cynicism of the time. ... Wordsworth was keen enough to discern the way people improve their lives in order to give benefit society, but not without taki...
The work was constructed to be the beginning piece in Lyrical Ballads, a two-volume set written by William Wordsworth and Coleridge. ... Wordsworth even bluntly described the piece as being in the wrong overall meter (Fry, 12). ... Some of the methods used to decipher "The Rime" have included reader-response, Marxist, new historicism, psychoanalytic, and even deconstruction analysis. ... With his wife and the Wordsworths gone, Coleridge was forced to undergo his addiction alone. ... Wordsworth visited him and the two even toured the Rhine together (Fry, 8). ...
The work was constructed to be the beginning piece in Lyrical Ballads, a two-volume set written by William Wordsworth and Coleridge. ... Wordsworth even bluntly described the piece as being in the wrong overall meter (Fry, 12). ... Some of the methods used to decipher "The Rime" have included reader-response, Marxist, new historicism, psychoanalytic, and even deconstruction analysis. ... With his wife and the Wordsworths gone, Coleridge was forced to undergo his addiction alone. ... Wordsworth visited him and the two even toured the Rhine together (Fry, 8). ...
Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ... Thus, an analysis of the relationships between nature and physical sensations, and their roles in the formation and function of imagination in Wordsworths "Tintern Abbey" and Anna Barboulds "A Summer Evenings Meditation," demonstrate the ways in which these poems constitute Romantic lyrics. ... This emphasis on the human minds capability "of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants" is Word...
