connection between Lament & Wordsworth
Lament only | Both poems | Report to Wordsworth only |
|---|---|---|
Free verse – no fixed form | Nature as victim of humans | Sonnet form (used ironically) |
Lists victims (animals and humans) | Tone of mourning / elegy | Classical mythology as framework |
Gulf War – a specific event | Sense that destruction is irreversible | Addresses a specific person (Wordsworth) |
Tone: elegiac, quiet grief | Anger – but restrained | Escalates to God — cosmic scale |
Language of death used for the natural world |