ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Old Age
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What remains behind is the mediating sophisticated consciousness that the adult has no. He begins with recognition that there was a time when the simple glories of nature meant something to him. Line 1-5: there was a time when everything seemed beautiful. Line 6-9: the adult can"t see the way the child sees because the adult can mediate the experience. You can"t detach yourself from the adult that you are because of your sophisticated mind. He is situating himself in a pastoral environment. Line 42- the glory and the dream. : the poet is afraid losing his sense of continuity in the external world. P. 352 line 175: he resolves it access to. Old age isn"t about losing ones self and the external world but its about engaging the years that bring the philosophic mind. An image of stability in an innocent external world. He"s remembering that state of innocence from the pov of tragic experience.
