Summary of Old Man Travelling
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Explanation:
The poem that I chose to analyse (Old Man Travelling) from William Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads”, seems on the surface to be about an old man who is travelling on his own to take leave of his son. However, at a deeper level Wordsworth is highlighting the loneliness which men suffer in the course of our life.
The poem that I chose to analyse (Old Man Travelling) from William Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads”, seems on the surface to be about an old man who is travelling on his own to take leave of his son. However, at a deeper level Wordsworth is highlighting the loneliness which men suffer in the course of our life.
The poem that I chose to analyse (Old Man Travelling) from William Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads”, seems on the surface to be about an old man who is travelling on his own to take leave of his son. However, at a deeper level Wordsworth is highlighting the loneliness which men suffer in the course of our life. First of all, as I mentioned before, one of the main ideas of the poem is that men are born alone and we remain alone during our lifetime. This idea, connected to the romantic conception of the man, being himself in contact with nature, is patently obvious in the first four verses of the poem, where the poet is using the image of “little birds” and above all, the explanation of the traveller’s expression, the way he walks and even the fact that he is not moving with pain, but absorbed in his own thoughts.