ENGL 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cirque, J. K. Rowling
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Shelley laments the loss of his friend, wordsworth, calling him the poet of nature. This is much more respectful than byron who was critical and less than kind to wordsworth. Wordsworth"s beliefs in repairing the world through nature. That being said, he lamented the loss of the wordsworth who fought for liberty, believing. Wordsworth had ceased to being on the side of liberty. The poem talks about the fall of the garden, a sort of paradise lost story. The sensitive plant is the outsider instead of the plant, but is the hero of the tale rather than satan and evil. They compare themselves to the rebel of the ruler, so satan-like in their rebellion of the ruler, or god. Not to be taken literally, but to be understood in the context of the society. Death is not the real end that we think it is, he suggests, because life is not what we think it is.
