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        <title><![CDATA[The point is that the child is merely saying that this is the reason he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The point is that the child is merely saying that this is the reason he prefers the home in Kilve instead of Liswyn Farm. In reality the child has no particular reason for prefering one place to the other. However, by asking the child so many questions, by providing so many logical alternatives (and we all know that feelings and preferences are not always based on logic) and pushing the child to the point where an answer has to be provided,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe that the poem has two houses, a current one and their old...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I believe that the poem has two houses, a current one and their old one.   Not sure why weathercock is there though.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:36:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does anybody have much knowledge of "Simon Lee..." by Wordsworth?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Does anybody have much knowledge of "Simon Lee..." by Wordsworth?]]></description>
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William Wordsworth was a Nature poet who worshipped Nature as his God...]]></title>
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William Wordsworth was a Nature poet who worshipped Nature as his God and it was his main source of spirtual comfort  and escape from all the cares of this world. His association with life giving and life sustaining Nature began even when he was only a child and remained with him till his death.
In this short lyric, the 'rainbow' symbolizes the life sustaining and life nourishing goodness of Nature. The sight of the beautiful rainbow which...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:19:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For Wordsworth, "the child is the father of the man."  There are plenty...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For Wordsworth, "the child is the father of the man."  There are plenty of examples where Wordsworth speaks to the fact that childhood reflects a particular instant in time that has to be revered and cherished.  Wordsworth's premise of striving to establish authenticity in voice and a non- conformist sense of reality lends itself to embracing childhood as a special time when individuals can truly be themselves.  In his poetry, there are...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:29:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is William Wordworth's view on children and innocence in his writings?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is William Wordworth's view on children and innocence in his writings?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:10:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As a Romantic poet Wordsworth did seem to be concerned with the themes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As a Romantic poet Wordsworth did seem to be concerned with the themes of Nature, though as we can see in 'Tintern Abbey' he vacillated. Sometimes Nature was the 'be all and end all' for William Wordsworth, sometimes though it was the heart. He seemed to swing from being reassured by the calmness of nature and soul (Upon Westminster Bridge) to being terrified of it (some of his Lakeland poetry.) In Tintern Abbey we see this change of flow,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:15:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the poem 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' William Wordsworth uses...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the poem 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' William Wordsworth uses personification to depict the city, the river and the business heart of the city.
The line 'the river glideth at his own sweet will' refers to the autonomy that Nature has - always used by, but still more powerful than, man. Yes London is big, powerful and man-made but it can only use the river, not control it nor divert it, nor make it flow faster or slower. He may have...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Question from Composed upon Westminster Bridge
1.Explain the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Question from Composed upon Westminster Bridge
1.Explain the personification in line 12-14?
2.Explain the metaphor in the last two lines?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:49:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wordsworth was a poet that was a product of his time period.  Arriving...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wordsworth was a poet that was a product of his time period.  Arriving on the literary stage after the Neoclassicist literary movement which emphasized social advancement and a sense of conformity, Wordsworth helped to articulate the Romanticist response.  Along with Coleridge and succeeding the work of Blake, the thematic development of this movement emphasized individuality and listening to authentic individual voice within a naturalized...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:01:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe Wordsworth as a 19th century poet.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe Wordsworth as a 19th century poet.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:13:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["The child is the father of the man" is one of Wordsworth's most famous...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["The child is the father of the man" is one of Wordsworth's most famous quotes and beliefs.  The idea of childhood is an essential component to Worsworthian poetry and thought.  On one hand, Wordsworth sees childhood as a moment where purity and honesty can be released into the world.  This period of life is one where one is fully immersed within their world and the barriers of in-authenticity and duplicitious conditions are not present. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:35:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["The Child is the Father of the Man."
The positive and life nurturing...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["The Child is the Father of the Man."
The positive and life nurturing impressions that get deeply etched in our minds when we are small children remain with us for the rest of our adult life. These early spiritual life sustaining childhood memories form the foundation of our adulthood and determine our personality. Hence, a happy childhood filled with pleasant life giving positive spiritual influences -here symbolized by the pleasant...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Some aspects of this question has been tackled before in the references...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some aspects of this question has been tackled before in the references below. Wordsworth often selected children in the natural environment as the inspiration for his poetry; best perhaps exemplified in poem Lucy Grey. In this poem, the young child becomes lost and dies in the snow. Her spirit, however, is believed by Wordsworth to live on in the natural world.

Yet some maintain that to this day
She is a living child
That you may see sweet...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[William Wordsworth seems to have had a soft spot in his heart for both...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[William Wordsworth seems to have had a soft spot in his heart for both Nature and Youth. Both, he perceives have innocence. One poem by Wordsworth which illustrates this point very well is from the Lyrical Ballads 'Anecdote for Fathers.'
In this simple warm and heartfelt poem, he outlines a walk between a father and a young child in which they discuss the merits and demerits of the country homes they have lived in and which the young son...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:30:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is William Wordsworth's view on children and nature in his writings?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is William Wordsworth's view on children and nature in his writings?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:41:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Just to elaborate upon the answer given, you can just have a look at the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just to elaborate upon the answer given, you can just have a look at the different ways in which Wordsworth and his contemporary romantics were portraying nature. The philosophical sources are diverse. There is a good deal of German transcendentalist connection here with influences of Kant and Schiller. Rosseau's dictum "Return to Nature" is yet another impetus. There is a Spinozian element too. Let us look at some of the ideas Wordsworth and...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[He almost couldn't help but write about Nature - it was in his very...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He almost couldn't help but write about Nature - it was in his very being right from the start.Nature was almost part of William Wordsworth's very being, even as a baby. His early childhood home was in an area of outstanding natural beauty in England - a mountainous area called the Lake District. In fact the bubbling of the beautiful river ,the Derwent, almost sang to him as it ran past the home. Later in life he recorded how its 'steady...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is probably because William Wordsworth was a Romantic poet (in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is probably because William Wordsworth was a Romantic poet (in fact, most say he was THE Romantic poet...the one who really got the movement going).  Romanticism,  in its simplest definition, was the movement where writers and artists tried to unite the natural world with the mind/emotions/soul of man.  For instance, in what is arguably his most famous poem, "Daffodils", Wordsworth probably wanted to actually put his reader in that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:15:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Wordsworth write about nature in most of his poems?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did Wordsworth write about nature in most of his poems?]]></description>
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