Imagery

Question 1

What is emphasised in the first stanza?

Answer 1

The idyllic nature of pastoral

• stressing the presence of the natural world
• ‘cliff’ ‘sky’ ‘cottage’
• use of concrete nouns ground us in the scene he is describing

Question 2

Second stanza

Answer 2

Abstract nouns become more prominent

• considers ‘sensations’ ‘mood’ ‘kindness’
• juxtaposition of the two types of noun mirrors the distance that Wordsworth feels from the place, the disconnect between experience and emotions

Question 3

How did Wordsworth saw man as:

Answer 3

Disconnected from nature
- like Rousseau, he believed that our purity was lost when we left nature - tries to forge a new connection with it in his poems

Question 4

What does the poem deliver?

Answer 4

A more introspective account of the relationship between man and the natural world
- reflection of his own thoughts which are then projected onto the wider topic