Peoples and Places

Lines Written in Early Spring, Context:

. William Woodsworth, 18th Century, Somerset

. Romanticism, focus on emotion and nature as it was a sublime experince that inspired a sense of awe

. Woodsworth believed in equality and human rights

. French and Industrial Revolution, thousands executed and poor working conditions

Lines Written in Early Spring, Form:

. Six quatrains with a mostly regular ABAB rhyme

. Iambic tetrameter except last line of each stanza in iambic trimeter

Lines Written in Early Spring, Form Quotations:

. Half-rhyme of "notes" and "thoughts"

. Enjambment between words "made It"

. Caesura in "And I must think, do all I can,"

Lines Written in Early Spring, Structure:

. Circular Structure

Lines Written in Early Spring, Structure Quotations:

. Anaphora of "If" at start of last stanza

. Repititoon of "What man has made of man?" in last and 2nd stanza

Lines Written in Early Spring, Natural Imagery:

. Descriptions of individual element sof nature, along with different senses, creats a vivid scene

. Community created through personification of flowers and trees

Lines Written in Early Spring, Natural Imagery Quotations:

. "I heard a thousand blended notes"

. "in a grove I sate reclined"

. "primrose", "periwinkle"

. "every flower enjoys"

. short vowel and plosives of "birds around me hopped and played"

. "budding twigs"

Lines Written in Early Spring, Spiritual Language:

. Personification of nature as a wise, powerful entity

. Narrator replaces conventional religigious beliefs with belief in nature

Lines Written in Early Spring, Spiritual Language Quotations:

. personification of "her fair works did Nature link the human soul"

. "tis my faith"

Lines Written in Early Spring, Contrasts:

. Unity and joy of nature contrats grief as humans have separated themselves from natrue and each other

Lines Written in Early Spring, Contrasts Quotations:

. juxtaposition of "pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts"

. double punctuation creating long pause of "their thoughts I cannot measure:-"

. divine image vs mortal image with "heaven" and "man" in last stanza

Lines Written in Early Spring, Consistent feelings and attitude:

. Pleasure - comfort and joy in nature that brings "pleasant thoughts" and natural worlds takes "pleasure" in existence and in working together

. Sorrow - human actions cause narrator "to lament", open to interpretation

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Context:

. Emily Brontë, 19th Century, Yorkshire Moors

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Form:

. 7 quatrains

.ABAB then AAAA rhyme scheme in final quatrain

. Regular rhythm and line lengths

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Form Quotations:

. Use of full stops makes command assertive

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Structure:

. 2 questions asked by speaker in first quatrain which are answered in rest of poem with persuasive techniques

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Structure Quotations:

. Introduces poem with a direct plea by opening with 2 questions

. "Return and dwell with me." as final line mirrors earlier command

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Isolation and Suffering:

. Isolated by dark emotional state within mind contrasting outer physical beauty of nature

. Battle isolation by turning to nature

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Isolation and Suffering Quotations:

."Thou lonely dreamer now?"

. Alliteration and monosyllabic words in "Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark to thee; Recall its useless roving - Come back and dwell with me."

. "wayward will"

. "drive thy griefs away."

."let my winds caress thee; thy comrade let me be"

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Natural Imagery:

. Natural world is a comforting presence that brings calm and pleasure but it is also powerful

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Natural Imagery Quotations:

. "Shall Nature cease to bow?"

. "I know my mountain breezes enchant and soothe thee still - I know my sunshine pleases"

. "Sinks from the summer sky"

. "I know my mighty sway, I know my magic power"

. "wildly"

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Religious Language:

. the earth has some spiritual power and appreciating the natural world is a form of faith

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Religious Language Quotations:

. "I've seen thy spirit bending In fond idolatry"

. "I've watched thee every hour"

. "mortals", "Yet none would aks a heaven More like this earth than thine"

. "bless"

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Consistent feelings and attitudes:

. Concern - worry about subjects unhappy state of mind seen in openign questions and speaker aims to help them breka out of melancholy

. Confidence - repetition of "I know" shows speakers confidence that subject will reyrun to them and admire nature, also seen in repeated direct command of ""dwell with me