Example #4The World is Too Much With UsbyWilliam Wordsworth This poem is aPetrarchan sonnet. It has fourteen lines and maintains the proper rhyme scheme and metrical pattern assigned to thatverse form. The lines are also split with a turn in the middle. Throughout this poem, Wordsworth expre...
This well-loved William Wordsworth poem is written in the form of an ode. This means that it was crafted to celebrate something or was written in dedication to something. In this case, The poet is looking back on the past, remembering a time in which the natural world pleased his spirit...
Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;" Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry;" and Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or ...
excellences is what renders Shakespeare so generally acceptable, each sort of readers finding in him what is suitable to their faculties. To the many, he is great as a storyteller; to the few, as poet. In limiting poetry to the delineation of states of feeling, and denying the name where...
Our species’ original instinctive alignment WAS TO the integrative, truly loving, ‘Godly’ meaning of life; as William Wordsworth wrote in his great poem, Intimations of Immortality, ‘trailing clouds of glory do we come, from God, who is our home’. (How we humans acquired unconditionally ...
A water well is so full of mystery! Its water lies so far underground that it's like a neighbor from some other planet, living in a container no one's ever seen the bottom of—only the glassy surface. Peering down into it is like staring into the abyss whenever you want! The grass...
And he trimmed me to a finish, and I know the reason why: He could keep his temper better when he dubbed a shot than I.His mashie stroke is choppy, without any follow through; I doubt if he will ever, on a short hole, cop a two, But his putts are straight and deadly, and he...
Fry redirects the poems and offers a strikingly revisionary reading.Fry argues that underlying the rhetoric of transcendence or the love of nature in Wordsworth's poetry is a more fundamental and original insight: the poet is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qu...
-William Wordsworth,British poet 生活要朴素,情操要高尚。 —威廉·华兹华斯,英国诗人 Honesty is the best policy. -Aesop,ancient Greek fabulist 诚实是最好的策略。 一一伊索,古希腊寓言作家 Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.
He believes that Wordsworth was an important figure in English culture.