WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Lines written in early spring Flashcards
1
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‘heard’
A
starts with a sense
2
Q
‘thousand blended notes’
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- bird songs = epitome of innocence
- combining man made things with nature
3
Q
‘notes…thoughts’
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- oblique rhyme, dissonance between the harmony that is mentioned in the stanza
- disrupted, unconventional rhyme scheme = foreshadows spiritual corruption
4
Q
‘reclined’
‘mind’
‘link’
‘think
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strong full rhyme = clarity is found upon reflection
5
Q
‘what man has made of man.’
‘what man has made of man!’
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change in punctuation =. growing fury and desperation
6
Q
‘primrose’
‘green’
‘periwinkle’
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- use of colour
- microcosm for earth, flowers exist harmoniously work together= why can’t we?
7
Q
‘the birds around me hopped and played’
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movement/ freedom = contrastingly he is stagnant ‘sat’
8
Q
‘the budding twigs’
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childlike imagery, nature allows rebirth, reform society
9
Q
‘And i must think, do all I can’
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syntax, ‘think’ before ‘do’ = importance of reflection
10
Q
‘what man has made of man’
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- symmetric production line, efficiency
- ‘made’ = mechanic/ industrial
- last word ‘man’
- anaphora = corruption of man is at the forefront of the poem
