http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfok7ZD9
2_k&feature=related
Video on Wordsworth’s life
Pg. 27- “Lucy Gray, or Solitude”
Written in 1799
Latin “lux” means Light.
Therefore, Lucy Gray means
light dark; light gone out
Vocabulary
 WretchedDeeply distressed
 wanton-
Playful; careless
Speaker -
Admirer of Lucy
Setting-
moor – an open marsh land
CharactersMotherdistracted, concerned
Fatherdistracted, trusting, hardworking,
harsh
Lucyeager to please, compliant, playful,
innocent, carefree, alone but not
lonely
Theme-
splendor and innocence of
childhood “ignorance is bliss”
nature gives and takes life
Irony-
Lucy is connected to
nature, yet nature is what
takes her away
Literary Elements/Language Usage Appositivedirect address. Line 15 “And take a
lantern, Child, to light”
 ForeshadowingLines 11 and 12 “But the sweet face of
Lucy Gray/Will never more be seen”
 Flashbackthe entire middle of the poem is written in
the day Lucy disappeared. The intro and
conclusion are after-the-fact.
“My Heart Leaps Up”
Video reading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
kr-4fqrdYSw&feature=fvwrel
References
nature- line 2- “rainbow in the
sky”
child- line 7- “Child is father of
the man”- childhood is the most
important stage of a man’s life
Themes
Splendor of childhood
Power of human mind- “I could wish
my days to be”
William Blake
 Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_geYnyuOk
“The Clod and
the Pebble”
Written in 1794
From Songs of Experience
Speaker
Clod= piece of dirt;
stupid person; idiot
Pebble=“realist”
pessimist
Personification
 Love is two-faced
 Selfless, easy
 Selfish, suffocating
 Clay and pebble talking
“A Poison Tree”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-x87gWZKd8
Allusion
Apple= Adam and Eve; sin
Symbolism
Apple= fruit of deceit
Theme
Suppression of anger leads to
more anger
John Keats
Video about Keats and “To Autumn”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
oR-FSHc3qyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
cKhX_DP1knU&feature=related
Appeals to the senses:
 Ripe fruit
 Sweet kernel
 Warm days
 Clammy cells
 Hair soft-lifted
 Fume of poppies
 Watching the last oozing hours
 Songs of Spring
 Stubble-plains
 Wailful choir
 Light wind
 Lambs loud bleat
 Hedge-cricket sing
 Red-breast whistle
Poem + Images
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAEjF4YNE&feature=related
Keats: “To Autumn”
 As autumn is dying, so is Keats
 Message/Theme: circle of life
Keats: “When I Have Fears”
 Sonnet- 14 line poem usually using iambic
pentameter (10 syllables….one
unstressed, followed by a stressed
syllable)
 When I have fears that I may cease to be
 Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain
Figurative language
 Simile
 Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain
 Personification
 Night’s starred face; magic hand of chance
Fears
 Death
 Fears that I may cease to be
 Failure
 Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain/To love and
fame to nothingness do sink
 Dying alone
 Cloudy symbols of high romance/that I may never live to
trace/ I stand alone
Images
 Space
 Night sky
 Fairies
Edgar Allan Poe: “To Helen”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jdZ1NUjWg
“To Helen”
 Comparisons:
 Sailing ship
 Tidal wave
 Hyacinth
 Statue
 Psyche- Greek goddess of soul