Poetry: A Sulmber Did My Spirit Seal
By Williams Wordsworth
Background/Setting; Plot; Theme; Characterization; Language, Style; Dramatic Technique and Symbolism.
Subject: Literature-in-English
Theme: Poetry
Topic: A Sulmber Did My Spirit Seal By Williams Wordsworth
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Class: S.S 1
Average Age: 14 years and above
Duration: 35 Minutes
No of Learners: 40
Back ground/Setting:
Author:
Author: Williams Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) 19th Century Romantic English poet. Regards poetry as an expression of man's inner most feelings. Poem: from a group or poems called "Lucy poems".Subject Matter:
The poem relate the feeling of shock and numbness experienced by the poet at the death of Lucy as well as his feelings of loss. To the poet although Lucy is dead, she lives another life with nature, the rocks stones and trees.Themes:
1. The poem is a description of me feeling of the poet.2. It immortalizes Lucy by associating her with nature.
Language, Style & Poetic Devices:
The Language of the poem is very simple. 'Slumber' is used in the sense of inactivity, referring to the initiative shock or dazed state of the poet. "Divmal" refer to Lucy's everlasting union with earth in its daily routine of life and movement. Descriptions and Statement are made in very plain manner.Form:
1. A poem of 2 stanzas with 4 lines in each stanza.2. There is stanza rhyme, abab, and movement of lines is controlled by unit of thought in the poem.