Wordsworth Quotes

Question 1

“My heart leaps up”

Answer 1

• “My heart leaps up when I behold/A rainbow in the sky”(personification)
• “So was it when my life began/ So is it now I am a man” (anaphora)
• “The Child is father of the Man” (paradox)

Question 2

“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”

Answer 2

• “There was a time when…the earth… to me did seem appareled in celestial light” (childhood/time)
• “Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” (childhood/purity)
• “Shades of the prison-house begin to close/upon the growing boy” (metaphor/loss of innocence)
• “Oh joy! In our embers is something that doth live” (metaphor/redemption)

Question 3

“The world is too much with us”

Answer 3

• “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers” (inclusive/consuming)
• “We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” (metaphor/imagery)
• “It moves us not-Great God! I’d rather be/a pagan suckled in a creed outworn” (Volte)

Question 4

“London 1802”

Answer 4

• “England… is a fen of stagnant waters” (metaphor)
• “Have forfeited their ancient English dower” (metaphor/history)
• “We are selfish men” (inclusive/humanity)

Question 5

“I wandered lonely as a cloud”

Answer 5

• “A host of golden daffodils… dancing in the breeze” (Personification)
• “A poet could not but be gay/In such jocund company” (Rhyme)
• “or oft, when on my couch I lie… They flash upon that inward eye” (Memory/Rhyme)
• “My heart with pleasure fills” (Metaphor/restorative)

Question 6

“The solitary reaper”

Answer 6

-“Yon solitary Highland Lass!” (Isolation)
- “The music in my heart I bore/Long after it was heard no more” (Rhyme/Connectivity)

Question 7

“Tintern Abbey’

Answer 7

• “Five years have past; five summers, with the length/Of five long winters!” (Anaphora)
• “These beauteous forms… felt in the blood, and felt along the heart” (Imagery: Heart/Blood)
• “Evil tongues, /Rash judgements…the sneers of selfish men (Impacts of Modernity)

Question 8

Seamus Heaney

Answer 8

• Wordsworth is a “finder and keeper of the self-as-subject” (First person)
• “The establishment of unmediated relations between nature and human nature could lead to a regeneration of the world” (Regeneration)
• “Salutary…(in his) evocation of landscape and weather” (Sublime)