Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

English > Wordsworth - Childhood > Flashcards

Wordsworth - Childhood Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
Q

Nutting

  • Ignorant - unintelligent - happy
A

He left in “The eagerness of boyish hope”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Three Years She Grew In Sun and Shower

  • Lost childhood
  • Lamenting loss but acknowledging she is not gone - important perspective due to high CMR at the time - spread this way of thinking through his poetry
A

“How soon my Lucy’s race was run”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Tintern Abbey

  • “Roe” simile suggests he was a part of nature rather than observer
  • “Bounded” anthropomorphism signifies a happiness in and an ignorance of his behaviour
A

“like a roe / I bounded o’er the mountains”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Tintern Abbey

  • “Flying” indicates a lack of appreciation for Nature - not seeking what he loved - took nature for granted and did not appreciate ‘her’
  • Reveals the spontaneity, imagination and emotion romantics valued in childhood as it gives rise to deep philosophical thinking in adulthood - also meant his youth was “thoughtless” and unintentional
A

“more like a man / Flying from something that he dreads, than one/Who sought the thing he loved”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Tintern Abbey

  • “Course” - unsophisticated
  • Implies he did not have the ability to think deeply or fully understand the world around him, he was merely living without thinking.
A

“courser pleasures of my boyish days / And their glad animal movements all gone by”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Tintern Abbey

  • Childhood qualities that are gone
  • Oxymoron - “rapture” - a feeling of intense pleasure or joy - so intense he felt “dizzy “ and it was “aching”
  • There has been “abundant recompense” for his “thoughtless youth” as it has imparted the ability to contemplate the “still sad music of humanity”
A

“And all its aching joys“ ”dizzy raptures”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Children can see Nature this way - elevates Natute - true state of the world but only children have the vision - epitomises holy bond between Nature and child
A

“Apparelled in celestial light”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Imagism - elevates child to uniquely close to god unlike the adult
A

“Trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Child is inextricably linked to metaphysical realm as God can be found within Nature
A

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Suggests children can communicate with Nature and implies Nature is God - Pantheistic views come from childhood
A

“Nature’s Priest”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

My heat leaps up when I behold

  • Paradox
  • Children are more knowledgeable - could learn from children - revered them - Rousseau
  • The child is what creates the adult - youth is the foundation for the adult self
A

“The Child is father of the Man”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

1801

  • It is “books, leisure, perfect freedom” that give us values of sympathy and love - lacking
A

“Tis’ not from battle that youth we train”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

1801

  • Metaphor for childhood - foundation of who the adult becomes
A

“Stalk”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

He left in “The eagerness of boyish hope”

A

Nutting

  • Ignorant - unintelligent - happy
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

“How soon my Lucy’s race was run”

A

Three Years She Grew In Sun and Shower

  • Lost childhood
  • Lamenting loss but acknowledging she is not gone - important perspective due to high CMR at the time - spread this way of thinking through his poetry
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

“like a roe / I bounded o’er the mountains”

A

Tintern Abbey

  • “Roe” simile suggests he was a part of nature rather than observer
  • “Bounded” anthropomorphism signifies a happiness in and an ignorance of his behaviour
17
Q

“more like a man / Flying from something that he dreads, than one/Who sought the thing he loved”

A

Tintern Abbey

  • “Flying” indicates a lack of appreciation for Nature - not seeking what he loved - took nature for granted and did not appreciate ‘her’
  • Reveals the spontaneity, imagination and emotion romantics valued in childhood as it gives rise to deep philosophical thinking in adulthood - also meant his youth was “thoughtless” and unintentional
18
Q

“courser pleasures of my boyish days / And their glad animal movements all gone by”

A

Tintern Abbey

  • “Course” - unsophisticated
  • Implies he did not have the ability to think deeply or fully understand the world around him, he was merely living without thinking.
19
Q

“And all its aching joys“ ”dizzy raptures”

A

Tintern Abbey

  • Childhood qualities that are gone
  • Oxymoron - “rapture” - a feeling of intense pleasure or joy - so intense he felt “dizzy “ and it was “aching”
  • There has been “abundant recompense” for his “thoughtless youth” as it has imparted the ability to contemplate the “still sad music of humanity”
20
Q

“Apparelled in celestial light”

A

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Children can see Nature this way - elevates Natute - true state of the world but only children have the vision - epitomises holy bond between Nature and child
21
Q

“Trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God”

A

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Imagism - elevates child to uniquely close to god unlike the adult
22
Q

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy”

A

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Child is inextricably linked to metaphysical realm as God can be found within Nature
23
Q

“Nature’s Priest”

A

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  • Suggests children can communicate with Nature and implies Nature is God - Pantheistic views come from childhood
24
Q

“The Child is father of the Man”

A

My heat leaps up when I behold

  • Paradox
  • Children are more knowledgeable - could learn from children - revered them - Rousseau
  • The child is what creates the adult - youth is the foundation for the adult self
  • Epigraph of ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’
25
Q

“Tis’ not from battle that youth we train”

A

1801

  • It is “books, leisure, perfect freedom” that give us values of sympathy and love - lacking
26
Q

“Stalk”

A

1801

  • Metaphor for childhood - foundation of who the adult becomes

English (11 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions