Thursday, February 14, 2013

Which two poems by William Wordsworth emphasize commonplace subjects and a reverence for nature?

The poem commonly known as "Lines Written Above Tintern
Abbey"(actually referred to by Wordsworth with the non-title "COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE
TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR" is a simple and
reverent poem about the beauty of nature observed on a simple walking tour. He has been
to this place before and delights in the simple pleasures of the mundane sights and
sounds:


The day is come when I again repose
Here,
under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these
orchard-tufts,


Which at this season, with their unripe
fruits,
Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
'Mid groves
and copses. Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little
lines
Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms,
Green to
the very door; and wreaths of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the
trees!


The poem "Nutting" is also a poem praising the
beauty of simple activity: nut gathering in the forest. It is also a love poem of sorts,
using suggestive language to describe what may be a romantic
encounter.

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