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Written in March
William Wordsworth
About William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770-23 April 1850) lived much of his life in England's Lake District. He served as Poet Laureate of England from 1843 until his death. He was a poet of nature and wrote extensively about its beauty. Some of his most famous poems include 'Lines Written in Early Spring', 'Daffodils', 'Tintem Abbey', and the Lucy poems. Wordsworth, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published the Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems, which is still considered to be a landmark in the history of English literature.
The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter
The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest
Are at work with the strongest;
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!
Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The plowboy is whooping-anon-anon:
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone!
Available Answers
- 1.Describe the first three things that the poet witnesses on a spring day.
- 2.Why do the cattle never raise their heads?
- 3.
Explain the phrase 'forty feeding like one'.
- 4.
Why does the ploughboy say 'anon'?
- 5.
Why does the poet say that the snow 'doth fare ill'?
- 6.
Explain the phrase 'blue sky prevailing'.
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