Nature (Spring, Heiress, Birds)

Question 1

What is Arg 1 for Spring?

Answer 1

Criticises Man’s lack of freedom

Question 2

What is Arg 2 for Spring?

Answer 2

Celebrates freedom found within nature’s holy beauty

Question 3

(Spring arg 1)

“Pleasant…” vs “Sad…”

Answer 3

Thoughts

Question 4

(Spring arg 1) Pleasant thoughts vs sad thoughts

Answer 4

Juxtaposition –> highlights fleeting happiness + difference between man and nature

Repetition –> literally cages you in thoughts like man is caged + overthinking

Sibilance –> evil of the seperating man from pantheisim

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Question 5

(Spring arg 1)

It grieved

Answer 5

my heart to think

Question 6

(Spring arg 1) It grieved my heart to think

Answer 6

–> metaphor of death = ‘grieving’ humanities freedom formerly found in nature

–> personification of the heart = heart is it’s own person, wants freedom and god and nature, while head continues to submit to oppression

Question 7

Spring arg 1 strucutre

Answer 7

Iambic tetrameter in all stanzas except when man is mentioned

–> man is disrupting harmony of nature with opression

Question 8

Spring arg 2

Every Flower

Answer 8

Enjoys the air it breathes

Question 9

Spring arg 2 Every flower enjoys the air it breathes

Answer 9

Joyful Personification –> nature is alive and full of God

Contrast with earlier personification of human heart –> nature lives = joy and happiness and holiness vs man lives = sadness

The heart is ‘dying’ but nature is alive

Question 10

Spring 2

NNNNNNNNNNature’s

Answer 10

holy plan

Question 11

Spring 2

NNNNNature’s holy plan

Answer 11

Capitalises ‘N’ like you would God –> pantheism

Extended metaphor of personification of freedom (heat, flowers) —> God = Freedom

Question 12

Who wrote Lines Written in an Early Spring?

Answer 12

William Wordsworth

Question 13

Arg 1 Heiress

Answer 13

Criticises man-made ruination of the enviorment

Question 14

Arg 2 Heiress

Answer 14

Argues for vital need to reconnect with and explore nature’s beauty

Question 15

Structure Spring 2

Answer 15

6 reg quatrains + ABAB = harmony and unity of the natural world

Question 16

Spring context

Answer 16

romantic poets and pantheism, industrial revoloution, Jean Jaques Rosseau : ‘Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”

Question 17

Heiress context

Answer 17

Guyanese poet, moved to britain in 1997, climate change, returned in the 2020s and witnessed it’s devastating effects

Her: “I have crossed an ocean, I have lost the root of my tongue. From the root of the old one, a new one has sprung.”

Question 18

Heiress 1 : Wave

Answer 18

of rubbish

Question 19

Heiress 1 : Car

Answer 19

tyres, plastic bottles, styrofoam cups.

Question 20

Heiress 1 : Wave of rubbish

Answer 20

unnatural imagery : symb mistreastment of the enviorment by humans.

–> literally drowns reader in imagery of rubbish

juxt between wave and rubbish : human crimes have replaced natures beauty

Question 21

Heiress 1 : Car tyres, plastic bottles, styrofoam cups

Answer 21

Listing –> emph destruction + symbolises overwhelming ness

“Plastic, tyres, styrofoam,” = s.f of unnaturalness –> evil of enviormental destruction

Ordainary objects symbolise humanities culpability

Question 22

Heiress structure 1

Answer 22

irregular lines + no rhyme = unpredicability and unnaturalness caused by climate changed

Question 23

Heiress 2 : Like an

Answer 23

Heiress

Question 24

Heiress 2 : Like an Heiress

Answer 24

simile : she is lucky to inherit the wealth and value of the environment

Question 25

Heiress 2 : Eye

Answer 25

-catching jewels

Question 26

Heiress 2 : Eye catching jewels

Answer 26

metaphor for sun on the ocean = wealth and beauty of enviorment imagery of a sparkling sea = tempts the reader with a picture of the beauty they are destroying eye-catching = power of nature's beauty, designed to be in harmony with humans

Question 27

Heiress strucutre 2

Answer 27

SONNET = 14 LINES = LOVE LETTER TO NAUTRE