Close Read: Wordsworth

Close Read: Wordsworth

5.5.2

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What makes poetry a good format for the Romantics to share their thoughts and feelings?

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How might either of these poems be different as an essay?

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Once again

Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,

That on a wild secluded scene impress

Thoughts of more deep seclusion

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On that best portion of a good man’s life,

His little, nameless, unremembered, acts

Of kindness and of love.

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To me was all in all—I cannot paint

What then I was.

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But now, become oppressors in their turn,

Frenchmen had changed a war of self-defense

For one of conquest, losing sight of all

Which they had struggled for

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So I fared,

Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds,

Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind.

Suspiciously, to establish in plain day

Her titles and her honors