Wordsworth - Solitude Flashcards
To My Sister
- Repetition - at the end
- Not doing much - will be in solitude - but not lazy
“We’ll give to idleness”
To My Sister
- “drink” - hyperbolic metaphor exaggerates how people can absorb wisdom from nature by simply being and experiencing idleness which is profound
“Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season”
Expostulation and Reply
- Michael asks why he does this speaker answers;
“And dream your(/my) time away”
Expostulation and Reply
- Not a waste of time, in fact holds more wisdom than methods of conventional learning
- Not doing anything can bring wisdom - contrast with busy industrial life
- Mindfullness
“we can feed this mind of ours/ In a wise passiveness”
Lines written in Early spring - 1798
- He is happy being in Nature - bittersweet as he realises others have lost this connection
“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts / Bring sad thoughts to the mind”
I Wondered Lonely As a Cloud
- Solitude is bliss as it brings with it solace and peace by eliciting comforting memory
- “Flash” - vivid powerful memory/ imagination because of the powers of Nature
“For oft, when on my couch I lie/ In vacant or in pensive mood,/ They flash upon that inwards eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude”
“We’ll give to idleness”
To My Sister
- Repetition - at the end
- Not doing much - will be in solitude - but not lazy
“Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season”
To My Sister
- “drink” - hyperbolic metaphor exaggerates how people can absorb wisdom from nature by simply being and experiencing idleness which is profound
“And dream your(/my) time away”
Expostulation and Reply
- Michael asks why he does this speaker answers;
“we can feed this mind of ours/ In a wise passiveness”
Expostulation and Reply
- Not a waste of time, in fact holds more wisdom than methods of conventional learning
- Not doing anything can bring wisdom - contrast with busy industrial life
- Mindfullness
“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts / Bring sad thoughts to the mind”
Lines written in Early spring - 1798
- He is happy being in Nature - bittersweet as he realises others have lost this connection
“For oft, when on my couch I lie/ In vacant or in pensive mood,/ They flash upon that inwards eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude”
I Wondered Lonely As a Cloud
- Solitude is bliss as it brings with it solace and peace by eliciting comforting memory
- “Flash” - vivid powerful memory/ imagination because of the powers of Nature
