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:tulip: Lines Written in Early Spring :tulip:, WRITTEN BY WILLIAM…
:tulip: Lines Written in Early Spring :tulip:
TITLE
'Lines' - Vague, suggests the poem is not worthy of note-taking, but sums up ideas of Romanticism
'Early Spring' - Connotes to new beginnings and life; what Romantics yearned for, wanted to reject the Enlightenment doctrine
CONTEXT
During the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution
Expense of human decency
Thoughts that people's obsession with rationality caused them to reject the wonders of nature and validity's of one's emotions
Promotion of Romantic values
Appreciation of God's creation
Simplicity of life, somehow made complicated
Pantheism: Worship of God through Nature
THEMES
Romanticism
Human condition
Harmony
Peace
Faith vs Reason
LANGUAGE
Sensory imagery
Personification
Natural imagery
Enjambment
Caesura
Religious references
Enlightenment references
Juxtaposition
Symbolism
Rhetorical questions
FORM AND STRUCTURE
Six stanzas: Quatrains
First three - Iambic tetrameter Last line - Iambic trimeter Human existence is not neat or tidy
Rhyme scheme: ABAB - Suggests never-ending presence of nature against the backdrop of destructive humanity
KEY QUOTES
"To her fair works did Nature link the human soul that through me ran;"
"I heard a thousand blended notes" - Hyperbole, sensory imagery, sense of harmony
"And much it grieved my heart to think, what man has made of man."
"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, the periwinkle trailed its wreaths; and 'tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breaths
"The birds around me hopped and played, their thoughts I cannot measure."
"The budding twigs spread out their fan, to catch the breezy air" - "that there was pleasure there."
"If this belief from heaven be sent, if such be Nature's holy plan, have I not reason to lament what man has made of man?"
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770 - 1850)