Nutting

Question 1

ideas of sexuality/sin/temptation as if young ww wants to rape nature.

Answer 1

‘Tall and erect, with tempting clusters hung,

A virgin scene!’

Question 2

nature is a feast that he wants to anomalistically indulge in.

Answer 2

‘the banquet’

Question 3

brief moment when physically connected to nature, he becomes a shepherd and nature is his sheep.

Answer 3

‘with my cheek on one of those green stones
That, fleeced with moss, under the shady trees,
Lay round me, scattered like a flock of sheep-’

Question 4

he has to force his way because nature is trying to protect himself.

Answer 4

‘Forcing my way, I came to one dear nook

Unvisited,’

Question 5

heard the sound of nature

Answer 5

‘I heard the murmur and the murmuring sound’

Question 6

plosive words as he aggressively and without care ‘ravages’ nature.

Answer 6

Then up I rose
And dragged to earth both branch and bough with crash,
and merciless ravage
(Plosives)

Question 7

nature was violated by man (ww)

Answer 7

‘Deformed and sullied’

Question 8

recognises that he is imprinting his present guilty feelings onto his younger self as he recognises that the sky and the trees witnesses his act.

Answer 8

‘and unless i now
Confound my present feelings with the past… I felt a sense of pain when I beheld The silent trees and saw the intruding sky.

Question 9

warning Dorothy, does not want her to violate nature because there is something within nature that he likens to a spirit.

Answer 9

then dearest maiden, move along these shades
in gentleness of heart; with gentle hand
Touch– for there is a spirit in the woods.

Question 10

serene moment that he loves to remember so that he can experience it again.

Answer 10

“The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
And on the vacant air.