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The Tables Turned is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1798 and published in his Lyrical Ballads. [1]The poem is mainly about the importance of nature.It says that books are just barren leaves that provide empty knowledge, and that nature is the best teacher which can teach more about human, evil and good.
"The World Is Too Much With Us" is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).
Although Nature is indifferent, it also cares for Lucy enough to both sculpt and mould her into its own. Wordsworth valued connections to nature above all else. The poem thus contains both epithalamic and elegiac characteristics; the marriage described is between Lucy and nature, while her human lover is left to mourn in the knowledge that ...
The Abbey and the upper reaches of the Wye, a painting by William Havell, 1804. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey is a poem by William Wordsworth.The title, Lines Written (or Composed) a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, is often abbreviated simply to Tintern Abbey, although that building does not appear within the poem.
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
"Hart-Leap Well" is a poem written by the Romantic Literature poet William Wordsworth. [1] It was first published in 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads. [2] The collection consists of two volumes and "Hart-Leap Well" is an opening poem of volume II.
Others have said that it celebrates "the continuity in Wordsworth's consciousness of self". [3] Other literary analysis draws parallels to the rainbow of Noah, and the covenant it symbolized, see Genesis 6:9–11:32. [4] Wordsworth's use of the phrase "bound each to each" in the poem also implies the presence of a covenant.
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 By a Retired Mariner, H. H. (A Friend of the Author) 1833 "From early youth I ploughed the restless Main," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man ((supposed to be written by a friend) 1833