Which for that service had been husbanded, by exhortation of my frugal dame motley accoutrement, of power to smile. Nutting is one of several poems that wordsworth wrote in. Nutting is a short autobiographical poem of fiftysix lines. It describes a youthful encounter with nature that helped to chasten william wordsworths moral sense and heighten his poetic. The fact that a young female is being given the warning seems to undermine the narrowly sexual interpretation that nutting sometimes attracts. Wordsworth criticism has been focusing again on nutting, the blankverse. Nutting was written in 1798 while wordsworth was in germany with his sister. The structure of the sororal in wordsworths nutting. Geoffrey hartmans analysis of the poem in the same year in wordsworths poetry. Summary, overview, explanation, meaning, description, purpose, bio. William wordsworths nutting is a blank verse lyric poem that blends memories of youth with imagery of nature in a selfcontained narrative arc. Criticism of nutting has generally focused on neither the fru. Nutting is indeed one very erotically charged poem omit ted from koestenbaums analysis of the erotics of wordsworth.
Nutting is a poem which originally appeared in wordsworths and coleridges lyrical ballads, and a few other poems, which is widely considered to be one of the markers of the beginning. Nutting by william wordsworth is a fiftysix line poem which is contained within one stanza of text. The lucy poems metaphor activity owl eyes is an improved reading and annotating experience for classrooms, book clubs, and literature lovers. In the first line, the speaker uses melancholy diction to describe how he wandered lonely as a cloud. Discussion of themes and motifs in william wordsworths nutting. It was originally intended to be included as part of his longer autobiographical piece, the. Although the oed documents this theme only as late as 1748, when samuel richardson.
He then shifts to a euphoric tone when he describes the host of golden daffodils. In any case, the theme of the murderous brother preoccupied the romantics. In the first stanza of william wordsworths i wandered lonely as a cloud the speaker uses first person to personalize what he says and to give more depth and meaning to his words. William wordsworth, preface to the second edition of the lyrical ballads, english romantic writers, 2nd edition harcourt. The poem is written in blank verse, meaning that there is not a pattern of rhyme or meter to structure the lines. Note that parenthetical citations within the guide refer to the lines of the poem from which the quotations are taken. An analysis of william wordsworths nutting by eleanor. Find full texts with expert analysis in our extensive library.
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