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The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth
About William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) was born tn the Lake District. England. The beautiful landscape of the place had a deep influence on Wordsworth’s imagination and poetic sensibility. Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he initiated the Romantic Age (the age which glorified nature and human emotions in poetry) in England literature. In his poetry, Wordsworth focused an nature, children, the poor, common people and used ordinary words to express his feelings. He defined poetry as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' arising from 'emotion recollected in tranquility'. Wordsworth was England's poet laureate for the last seven years of his life.
Up! Up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! Up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun above the mountain’s head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! ‘Tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet.
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.
And hark! How blithe the throstle sings!
And he is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless-
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:-
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up these barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
Available Answers
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What is the poet telling his friend to do? How did the friend react to it?
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How has the poet described the evening?
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Where according to the poet would one find more wisdom?
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Why does the poet say that books are an endless strife?
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‘And he is no mean preacher:’ Who does the poet refer to as ‘he’?
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Explain the lines ‘She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless’.
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