A. Answer these questions.
1. Where was the speaker and what was he doing?
2. Quote the lines from the poem which indicate that a connection has been
established between the speaker and nature.
3. What special quality of the birds and wildflowers does the speaker
comment on?
4. What, according to the speaker, is 'Nature's holy plan?
5. Who was he upset with and why?
Answers
1) What is meaning of the phrase "Man has made of man" in "Lines Written in Early Spring"?
In "Lines Written in Early Spring," the speaker is reclining in a grove, listening to birdsong and enjoying the spring flowers, when he begins to feel rather sad: he cannot help but contrast the.
2) What is the metaphor in the poem "Lines Written in Early Spring" by William Wordsworth?
In this poem, the speaker is resting in nature in early spring, “In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts/Bring sad thoughts to the mind.” And so he contemplates the beauty of the flowers and...
3) Explain the following lines: "Have I not reason to lament what man has made of man"?
Literally, what Wordsworth is saying here is something like this: Do I not have good reason to be upset about what people have turned themselves, and each other, into? If we look more closely at...
4) What was nature's holy plan?
In the poem "Lines Written in Early Spring" by William Wordsworth, "nature's holy plan" appears to be enjoying life. As the speaker sits in a grove and ponders the plant and animal life exist
5) Where and when did the poet hear a thousand blended notes in "Lines Written in Early Spring"?
"I heard a thousand blended notes" is the opening line of William Wordsworth's "Lines Written in Early Spring." The title reveals the time of its composition, and the second line, "While in a grove...