British Romantic Poetry - William Wordsworth

Question 1

I have said the poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from the emotion recollected in tranquility

Answer 1

Wordsworth

Question 2

For i have learned to look on nature not as in the hour of thoughtless youth: but hearing oftentimes the still sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue

Answer 2

Wordsworth
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

Question 3

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? / Where is it now the glory and the dream?

Answer 3

Wordsworth
- Ode on Intimations of Immortality

Question 4

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home:

Answer 4

Wordsworth
-Ode on Intimations of Immortality

Question 5

Hence in a season of calm weather though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea which brought us hither can in a moment travel thither, and see the children sport upon the shore, and hear the mighty waters rolling evermore

Answer 5

Wordsworth
- Ode on Intimations of Immortality