ENG 3318 Lecture 6: Wordsworth Lecture 3
13 Feb 2017
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Anticlimax simon lee, mount snowden: moon rises instead of sun. Lucy -name: hard to describe in blazonry. Uneven line scheme in each of the stanzas. Form: pindaric ode, lyric in elevated, senious style addressed to a natural force or person or abstract quality. Epigraph: has to be child before man- precursed to himself; child teaches the adult. Child has key role in romantic experience: renewal, rebirth, natural state of adulthood. Celebration of innocence and pastoral realism of child. Lamenting loss of childlike wonder: doesn"t deny that the sight was there, just that his perception has. S2: yearning for childhood vision: acknowledge that experience deadens wonder, elegiac quality, very sorrowful. S3: now let"s stay in the moment: fields of sleep : do i wake or sleep, trying to reawaken magic sensation of childhood, ambiguous image like poppy fields which can awaken you to a joyous truth. S4: trying to make himself experience childhood again: interruption of near celebration (line 51) tree.
