Language Flashcards
Numerous aspects of nature quotes:
‘Mountain springs’ ‘steep and lofty hills’ ‘orchard tufts’ ‘hedge-rows’
What does the use of repeated connectives and enjambment highlight nature as?
One unified whole
As one unified whole quotes:
‘Deeply interfused’ ‘all thinking things’
What does the use of enjambment do?
Create a tone of tranquility, slowing the pace of the poem, reinforced by the fluidity of iambic pentameter
What does ‘and connect the landscape with the quiet of the sky’ describe?
Nature’s unity as well as the diversity found in the natural world
Which other poem describes nature’s unity and diversity?
‘Early Spring’
- ‘thousand blended notes’
What do the poems early spring and tintern abbey demonstrate?
Wordsworth’s pantheistic reflections of nature as fused together
What do Tintern Abbey and Early spring contrast with?
William Blake’s ‘London’ ‘Tyger’
- contrast with contemporary society’s disconnection and separation
What do Blake and Wordsworth show distaste for?
The Industrial Revolution - caused increased urbanisation, mechanisation and consumerism
What does Wordsworth’s use of ‘pastoral’ imagery and semantic field do?
Highlights his position as a Romantic
What is romanticism described as?
An era of enlightenment of literature and poetry
- took place in the late 18th century
What was the most defining theme of Romanticism?
Nature
- romantics championed creation and a return to a more primitive and rural society, away from the ‘din of towns and cities’
What does Wordsworth say he gets from experiencing nature?
‘Tranquil restoration’ and visiting memories of nature sustaining him in ‘this unintelligible world’
