William Wordsworth Flashcards
relating to or occurring in the spring
vernal
morally degraded; base
sordid
thoughtful; reflective
pensive
luminous brightness; radiance
lustre
Has three quatrains (four lines) and a concluding couplet (two lines). The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
English or Shakespearean snnet
repose; stillness
tranquility
an expression that, in addition to an obvious meaning, carries a second, subtle meaning (often at variance with the ostensible meaning)
adianoeta
sad; sorrowful
forlorn
a natural endowment or gift
dower
a meadow
lea
a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
lyric poem
Has two parts, an octave (eight lines) followed by a sestet (six lines). The octave rhyme scheme is ABBAABBA, and the sestet rhyme scheme is CDECDE, or another variation such as CDCCDC, or CDCDCD.
Italian or Petrarchan sonnet
lively; spirited
sprightly
a swamp
fen
a sea god who could change his shape whenever he wants
Proteus
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers”
“The World is Too Much with Us”
In “London, 1802,” Wordsworth beseeches whom?
John Milton
“It is a Beauteous Evening”
Wordsworth views the sun setting over the sea in the evening.
what the speaker sees “all at once”
“a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
“the fields, and to the sky”
“Ships, towers, domes, theatres, adn temples lie open unto …”
“she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside …”
the main components of English society
“Ten Thousand I saw at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance”
personification in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
“It is a Beauteous Evening,” Wordsworth addresses whom?
a young girl
In “Composed Upon Westminister Bridge,” Wordsworth compares the beauty of the London morning to this …
the natural beauty of the Earth
“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood …”
“They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
the major distinction in “the Tables Turned”
being out in Nature and book learning
“Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart”
Milton
“So might I, standing on this pleasant lea …”
“Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn”
“Our meddling intellect … “
“Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: -
We murder to dissect.”
What the City wears like a garment
the beauty of the morning
