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William Wordsworth All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. Life Experience Early Years Those Who had influences on Him His Sister Dorothy His Friend Coleridge Major Works The Solitary Reaper孤独的刈麦女 Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey丁登寺 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud独自云游 Lucy Poems露丝诗组 (She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways; A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal) Points of View Poetry Is Spontaneous nature “the nurse,/the guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul/ of all my moral being” Nature to him is a source of mental cleanliness and spiritual understanding; a healing power; a teacher; the stepping stone between Man and God; 3. “emotion recollected in tranquility” 4. “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” 5. Raw materials: Natural scenes and everyday events, the speech of ordinary people 6. Simplicity and purity of language: Language Spoken by the Peasants When Purified from its defects, is the Best of All. Questions for Discussion 1.1 What’s the poet’s view on nature with regard to the following poem? 1.2 What figures of Speech are used and their function to the poem? My Heart leaps up when I behold My Heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. 当天边彩虹映入眼帘， 我心为之雀跃； 初生时即如此， 我现在仍不变， 将来也会如此， 否则我宁愿死去！ 儿童是成人之父； 愿自然虔诚的意念， 将我生涯的每个日子连串起来 自幼至老，深信不移。 I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud I wondered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch’d in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay Ten thousand saw I at a glance