Classical Poems Treasure__2

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A SLUMBER did my spirit seal
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A SLUMBER did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.



Biographical sketch of William Wordsworth




William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770
British poet, who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on the nature, children, the poor, common people, and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion recollected in tranquillity" was shared by a number of his followers






With all my Love



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[Sami96SA]

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Hello Romeo

It's nice to read classic poems, but I for one find it very hard to comprehend the true meaning of poems like this one

Would you be kind enough and just put down what you have percieved from this poem in plain English. Maybe others like Khuder, Angel, and Melody do the same

Let's see how everyone reads the poem and see if the meaning differs from one reader to another

Is it a fair call I am asking? Good, let's start with the first one who opens on the topic


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Sami
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Hi there

A nice choice Romeo...


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Sami..

I'll try to quickly and shortly give a small explanantion here according to what I still remember from my studies of Romantics such as Wordsworth

Wordsworth is a romantic or (the etenrnal Romantic)as the title of a book I have suggests.He might also be called by some as a naturalist as he believed in nature and always mentioned it one way or another in his writings ....

I think the poem is about a dead person
Now, to put it all in the right context it would be worthwhile to mention the death of Wordsworth's sister whom he loved .
so much
Her death had had a big effect on his poetry as he wrote many many poems mourniing her or simply speaking of her.

That's what I remember for now...I hope it helped

Thank you

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