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Wordsworth - Poem Overview/ Tone/ Stucture Flashcards

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To My Sister

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  • Willing Sister Dorothy to enjoy nature with him
  • Casual, conversational, hopeful tone
  • 1798
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Nutting

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  • Autobiographical memory of childhood - enjoying the beauteous forms of nature - greed and lust overcomes him
  • Mirrors concern of industrialization and the greed of humanity - the destructive tendencies of people and the harm we cause to our environment - climate change
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Michael

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  • Couple living rural life give themselves to their son who later goes to a city becomes corrupted and the house which is symbolic of life and simplicity is lost forever - immortalised in poetry
  • 1799
  • Around the time WW wrote a letter to a politician Charles Fox
    • “men who do not wear fine clothes can feel deeply”
  • Lyrical ballad
    • Democratising - elevating stories - promoting equality
  • Unrhymed iambic pentameter
    • Historically used for epic poems of heroes - WW believed these characters to be heroic leading inspiring lives
  • Language has direct dialogue and is easy to follow - a story of the common people for the common people
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Resolution and Independence

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  • Wordsworth is in a bad state of mind mainly due to financial distress - nature calms him - sees the Leech-gatherer which gives him perspective
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Three Years She Grew In Sun and Shower

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  • Lyrical ballad - a child died which is described by WW as nature transforming her into making her apart of the the natural world
  • Nature is speaker than WW - provides 2 perspectives on death
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Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

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  • Sing song rhyme scheme make a sombre story more mystifying and upbeat - suggesting death is not the end
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Tintern Abbey

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  • Overlooks beautiful landscape - explores the importance of memories - reminiscent of childhood - acknowledges deeper appreciation for Nature as adult - encourages sister to take in nature so she may create memories
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Expostulation and Reply

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  • Friend Mathew challenges speakers beliefs and values
  • Conversational
  • 1798
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality

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  • Begins with epigraph - “the child is father of the man”
    • Overall message of the poem and elaborates on something briefly touched on in ‘My heart leaps up when I behold’ which is the poem directly before in the collection (Heaney’s deliberate)
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I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud

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  • Symbiosis between individual and nature
  • ABAB - iambic tetrameter
  • First person
  • Symbol of daffodils
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The Two Part Prelude

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  • Overall message
    • Autobiographical episodic poem as he recounts sublime experiences from his childhood
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Lines Written In Early Spring - 1798

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The Tables Turned

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  • 1798
  • Ballad form
    • simple language, a narrative, strong rhythm, repetition
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My heart leaps up when I behold

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1801

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  • Buonaparté’s brutal destruction of humanity is described as a consequence of his unnurturing / unloving upbringing
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The World is too much with us; late and soon

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  • Switch from “we” - inclusive language to “I” emphasises isolation and separation felt from society due to its ideals and values going astray
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London, 1802

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  • Longing for friend Milton - apostrophising him
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Written in London September 1802

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  • Expressing disillusionment to Coleridge - apostrophising him
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French Revolution

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The Ruined Cottage

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  • Margret and her slow decline and death after the abandonment of herself and her children by her husband, Robert
  • The house
    • Literally a physical dwelling
    • Charts Margaret’s slow decline and loss of interest or pleasure in the world
  • Peddler narrator along with WW
    • WW is being taught something by the Peddlar - documents WW change in perspective when learning new things - how he wants his reader to be - open to new ideas and stories
  • Poor harvest and starvation
  • Lyrical ballad
    • Democratising - elevating stories - promoting equality
  • Unrhymed iambic pentameter
    • Historically used for epic poems of heroes - WW believed these characters to be heroic leading inspiring lives
  • Language has direct dialogue and is easy to follow - a story of the common people for the common people

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