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Cockermouth,
Cumbria,
England
Hawkshead
Cambridge
 Wordsworth’s mother died when he was eight
 Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School
 While he was at Hawkshead…
 After Hawkshead, Wordsworth studied at St. John’s
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College in Cambridge
When Wordsworth returned to London from France,
his uncle did not want to support him for the political
reasons.
In October 1795, Wordsworth moved to countryside
with Dorothy, his younger sister.
Democracy
Nature
Humanity
She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment’s ornament;
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful Dawn;
A dancing Shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A Creature not too bright of good
For human nature’s daily food,
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A Traveller between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect Woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light.
(The
End)
Rhyme
Tone: romantic
10-line stanzas
5 couplets in each stanza
Throughout the whole poem, it uses external
rhyme
Ex: She was a Phantom of delight, When first
she gleamed upon my sight.
 Typical romantic poem
 imagination and the poetic inspiration
 First stanza: elusive
 Second stanza: become realize the true meaning of
love
 Third stanza: totally understand
 Theme: Wordsworth put a very excessive emotion to
this poem which make people feel the subtle between
he and his wife.
 This poem shows that the "perfect" woman was
created from nature. Nature is the origin of every
enjoyment.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -and gazed -but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
(The End)
 Rhythm
iambic tetrameter, iambic trimeter
 Alliteration
 Assonance
 Consonance
 Simile
 Personification
 Author’s inspiration came from his younger sister
Dorothy’s description of daffodils dancing in the wind.
 Mood: sadness
happiness
 The great influence of nature upon human being.
Both of the two poems wrote about the nature of the
woman and the nature we live. They both use the
figurative language such as rhyme and rhythm, which
make these art of work became song-like poems.
Also, both two poems wrote about the freedom and the
beauty of nature, which means the author had a
special interest in that. Author had visited France and
being effected by the revolution there, which means
he aversion to urban civilization and cold relations of
money. That is the main reason why he and Dorothy
moved to the countryside, where lots of beautiful
poems was written there.
 William Wordsworth’s biography
 http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-wordsworth
 William Wordsworth’s poem--She Was a Phantom of
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Delight
http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/531/
William Wordsworth’s poem--I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud
http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/514/
Some analysis about She Was a Phantom of Delight
http://www.eliteskills.com/analysis_poetry/She_Was_a_Ph
antom_of_Delight_by_William_Wordsworth_analysis.php
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/she-was-a-phantomof-delight-2/
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