Starter quiz
- Words such as "pleasure" and "enjoys" suggest...
- positive emotions ✓
- negative emotions
- neutral emotions
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- Romanticism is an artistic movement that largely focused on...
- reason and logic
- emotion and nature ✓
- rationality and practicality
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- Romantic poets often wrote of their feelings of __________ towards nature.
- indifference
- awe ✓
- resentment
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- Sitting 'reclined' generally indicates you are feeling...
- tense
- relaxed ✓
- sad
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- To compare something to 'heaven' suggests...
- it is superior to normality. ✓
- it is inferior to normality.
- it is equal to normality.
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- To be in 'harmony' means to be...
- in unity ✓
- in chaos
- unbalanced
- confused
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Exit quiz
- Context is...
- only personal information about the poet's life.
- relevant personal, cultural, or social information. ✓
- only information about relevant political ideologies.
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- A 'lament' means a passionate expression of...
- joy or happiness
- envy or jealousy
- grief or sadness ✓
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- The process of change from farming and handicraft to machines and factories is known as the...
- Industrial Revolution ✓
- French Revolution
- Glorious Revolution
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- To be worried or uneasy means to feel...
- 'disquieted' ✓
- Something used for farming or relating to farming is known as...
- industrial
- agricultural ✓
- sociocultural
- supernatural
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- In Wordsworth's 'Lines Written in Early Spring', the speaker likely feels sadness for which reasons?
- the disconnect between man and nature ✓
- the treatment of mankind towards each other ✓
- he cannot spend more time in nature
- the disconnect between man and machine
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Key learning points
- Wordsworth expresses the idea of harmony in nature through ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’.
- The speaker’s appreciation of nature is pierced by his lament for the actions of mankind.
- Arguably, the poem expresses a disconnect and lack of understanding between mankind and nature.
- Wordsworth was a Romantic poet.
- The poem could also be lamenting the move away from agriculture that came with the Industrial Revolution.
Common misconception
That a poem must have one singular tone.
Often poems express complex emotions. For example, the speaker of 'Lines Written in Early Spring' feels both peace and disquiet at the same time.
Keywords
Harmony - the combination of separate but related parts in a way that uses their similarities to bring unity
Romanticism - a poetry movement from the late 18th and early 19th century, focused on emotions and nature
Disquieted - to be worried or uneasy
Lament - a passionate expression of grief or sorrow
Agricultural - used for farming or relating to farming
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