| Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...divine. In Wordsworth's poem these pairs are split apart, and the son is torn between two allegiances. "Oh evil day! if I were sullen / While the Earth herself is adorning," the poet confesses in the fourth stanza, and the conditional seems intended to disguise his state,... | |
| Dolores R. Leckey - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 192 pages
...the level of heart and imagination, in a Wordsworthian way. "Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call /Ye to each other make; I see/ The heavens laugh...you in your jubilee;/ My heart is at your festival. . ." She loved their spirit of jubilee but what she didn't bargain for was the fatigue attendant on... | |
| Rod Preece, Lorna Chamberlain - Law - 1993 - 345 pages
...of naturalistic Romanticism and includes the immortal lines: Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh...heart is at your festival My head hath its coronal The fullness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.6 If our own technological, cynical and progressive... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy! IV Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh...you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, 40 My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel - I feel it all. Oh evil day! if I were... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy! Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh...heart is at your festival. My head hath its coronal, 40 The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all. Oh evil day! if I were sullen While Earth herself... | |
| Joseph C. Sitterson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 228 pages
...rhetoric and rhythm of stanzas 3 and 4 show that the speaker is attracted back to it. The strange lines "Oh evil day! if I were sullen / While the Earth herself is adorning" provide further evidence. They are strange because they deny sullenness even while tacitly admitting... | |
| Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...tone in stanza 4, where he strains at a joy he does not feel. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh...I feel it all. Oh evil day! if I were sullen While Earth herself is adorning, o This sweet May-morning, And the Children are culling On every side, In... | |
| Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...vollzieht sich vor allem über die akustische Wahrnehmung. „Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call/ Ye to each other make; I see/ The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee". 352 Während die Vögel fröhlich singen, 353 Stromschnellen trompetenhafte Geräusche erzeugen, 354... | |
| Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...from Recollections of Early Childhood, written around 1803-6. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh...coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel - I feel it all.18 Following the death of the beloved family pet, Music, Wordsworth's compassion and admiration... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy! 4 Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh...heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, 40 The fullness of your bliss, 1 feel - 1 feel it all. Oh evil day! if I were sullen While Earth herself... | |
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