William Wordsworth was one of the leading British poets from 1800 to 1850. He grew up inthe Lake District in northwest England. His parents died when he was a child, and his life with hisgrandparents was not very happy. To feel better he loved to go for long walks in the mountains or...
When I started my palaeo Masters (as it then was) at Portsmouth, I had a very bad habit of writing unnecessary double negatives of the kind the Sir Humphrey Appleby might use. Instead of saying “Taxon X resembles taxon Y”, I would say “is not dissimilar to”. I did this all the ...
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (aka “Daffodils”), William Wordsworth: In this poem, he speaks of golden daffodils that are: “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze” and “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” The way these daffodils are moving evokes a sense of happiness or glee to t...
I use Coetzee's novel Disgrace to argue that his work resists such a reductive interpretation, and that it correlates such an interpretation with certain pedagogical and poetical positions, which all converge in the figure of William Wordsworth. I then argue, through close readings of Boyhood and...
William Wordsworth was one of the leading British poets from 1800 to 1850. He grew up in the Lake District in northwest England. His parents died when he was a child, and his life with his grandparents was not very happy. To feel better, he loved to go for long walks in the ...
I assume, is why so many wise sayings have been coined on the subject. Everyone has heard that “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”, attributed to Lao Tzu in maybe the 5th Century BC. More pithily, I recently discovered that Williams Wordsworth is supposed to have...
Daffodils are most often found in clusters, and every time I see Daffodils at this time of year, I am reminded of William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” that I learnt at school; it is a poem to celebrate Daffodils- “And then my heart with pleasure fills, and da...
Some are crumbling ruins, others still-functioning households � while Tintern Abbey, above, remains a timeless reminder of William Wordsworth's musing on 'the still, sad music of humanity'. 年份: 2012 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 EBSCO 相似文献...
1.On the Scientization of Wushu-Qigong Health-Building from the Theory of Internal Organs State;从中医“脏象说”谈气功、武术炼身的科学化 2.The antiquated Earth, as one might say, / Beat like the heart of Man(William Wordsworth)正如有人说的那样,古老的地球,象人类的心脏在跳动(威廉 华兹华斯)...
The 16th century English poet, Edmund Spencer, creator of the Spenserian sonnet, incorporated Alexandrine rhyming couplets as the end lines to stanzas in his sonnets. English Romantic poet William Wordsworth’s famous Immortality Ode also used iambic hexameter: “The things/which I/have seen/ I ...