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A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth
About William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a notable English Romantic poet, who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wrote Lyrical Ballads, and formally launched the age of Romanticism in English Literature. He was the Poet Laureate of Britain from 1843 till his death.
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 around in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Available Answers
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What does the poet mean by 'a slumber' governed his spirit?
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Why do you think the poet refers to the lady as 'a thing' ?
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How would the 'touch of earthly years' affect a person?
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How are we made aware of the abrupt change in the lady's existence in the second stanza?
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What is her condition now?
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No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees- No motion has she now, no force; - Why does the speaker say this?
- Explain the meaning of 'earth's diurnal course'?
- What is the belief that comforts the speaker now?
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