Wordsworth - Memory Flashcards
Three Years She Grew In Sun and Shower
- Memory is painful - but important to remember and immortalise in poetry
“The memory of what has been/ And never more will be”
Tintern Abbey
- Soothes the “sad perplexity”
- “Food” metaphor implies that memories and moments in Nature sustains him - he’ll need to revisit - needed for the survival of human life
“That in this moment there is life and food for future years”
Tintern Abbey
- Metaphor - describes memory as a physical place that can be retreated to in order to be provided with solace
“Thy memory be as a dwelling-place / For all sweet sounds and harmonies”
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Answer to “where is now the glory and the dream?”
- Despite people losing divine child vision they can remember it - described adults soul as “embers” of the glorious fire which was childhood - stoked become memories - perhaps return to divine childlike state
“Embers”
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
- Solitude being described as a positive thing reinforces Romantic ideals
“They flash upon that inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude”
The Two Part Prelude
- Never forget - often occur in childhood given children are more impressionable thus they can shape the adult
“spots in time”
Tintern Abbey
- What memories of nature gives him amidst the “din of towns and cities”
- Feels at piece and soothed by Nature
“These beauteous forms…I have owed…tranquil restoration…[and] another gift,/ Of aspect more sublime…the weary weight of this unintelligible world,/ Is lightened”
“The memory of what has been/ And never more will be”
Three Years She Grew In Sun and Shower
- Memory is painful - but important to remember and immortalise in poetry
“That in this moment there is life and food for future years”
Tintern Abbey
- Soothes the “sad perplexity”
- “Food” metaphor implies that memories and moments in Nature sustains him - he’ll need to revisit - needed for the survival of human life
“Thy memory be as a dwelling-place / For all sweet sounds and harmonies”
Tintern Abbey
- Metaphor - describes memory as a physical place that can be retreated to in order to be provided with solace
“Embers”
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Answer to “where is now the glory and the dream?”
- Despite people losing divine child vision they can remember it - described adults soul as “embers” of the glorious fire which was childhood - stoked become memories - perhaps return to divine childlike state
“They flash upon that inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude”
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
- Solitude being described as a positive thing reinforces Romantic ideals
“spots in time”
The Two Part Prelude
- Never forget - often occur in childhood given children are more impressionable thus they can shape the adult
“These beauteous forms…I have owed…tranquil restoration…[and] another gift,/ Of aspect more sublime…the weary weight of this unintelligible world,/ Is lightened”
Tintern Abbey
- What memories of nature gives him amidst the “din of towns and cities”
- Feels at piece and soothed by Nature
