Dejection: an Ode: Nature

Question 1

Desperately wants to be moved by nature

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Answer 1

And the slant night-shower driving loud and fast!
Those sounds which oft have raised me, ….
Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live!

Question 2

Cannot be moved by nature

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Answer 2

Those stars, that glide behind them or between,
Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen:
Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew
In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue;

Shurr: nature in the poem is “It is the Nature usually associated with the romantic poets.”
Ilhwan Yoon re­ marks that it is unusual and disturbing to find a Romantic ut­terly unaffected by nature – it is unusual to be Non-vatic only COL and Byron

Question 3

Can fudge it: easy to mimick the romanctic descriptions, but for romantics nature is bound with the imagination

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Answer 3

It were a vain endeavour,
Though I should gaze for ever
On that green light that lingers in the west:
I may not hope from outward forms to win
The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

Birlik
he cannot read the symbols that would make nature into Nature.