ESSAY CEMETERY

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The poet wanders in the field and encounters a bunch of daffodils, which make him happy. My Heart Leaps Up Rainbows make the speaker happy today, as they did when he was a child The World is Too Much With Us City life corrupts the soul, moves us out of tune with nature. For the narrator, even paganism is better than city life. William Wordsworth

We Are Seven A little girl insists she has seven siblings, even though two are dead. Expostulation and Reply William is asked why he sits and stares at nature uselessly. He replies that there is value not only in activity but in reflection and observation. The Tables Turned The speaker implores his audience to turn from books to nature, and become immersed in the emotions it evokes. Lines, Composed Above Tintern Abbey The narrator returns to a place in nature where he had been five years previously. He reflects upon the location, and how his growth as a person is reflected in his changing attitude towards nature. William Wordsworth

Songs of Innocence Introduction A child, delighted by the songs of a piper, urges him to put them in writing. The Little Black Boy A mother teaches her black son that after long travail on earth, god awaits, as well as heaven, where everyone is equal. The Chimney Sweeper Little boy Tom has a dream that an angel releases all the chimney sweepers  to heaven, and is comforted. Infant Joy A two day old baby is joyful and wishes joy upon others. Songs of Experience The Chimney Sweep A chimney sweep, who is unhappy, blames his church-going parents and the church for his misery. The Sick Rose A worm destroys a rose The Tyger The speaker wonders at the power of a tiger, and wonders that it was created by the same entity as the lamb. The Garden of Love The garden of Eden turns into a graveyard after a church is built in it. Illustration by William Blake

THEMES AND CORRESPONDING QUOTATIONS Songs of Innocence Joy Piping songs of pleasant glee Children And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear Meta-art The white race is superior to the black heathen race My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white Tolerance My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child Nature God Suffering is temporary, god brings relief Man as innocent (lambs) In heaven everyone is the same Songs of Experience Meta-art: the poet as see-all, prophet Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word Criticism about the church ``And because I am happy & dance & sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King, Who make up a heaven of our misery.'&

KEY WORDS Wedding Mariner Sea- and ship-related words Storm Kirk STYLE AND DEVICES Side notes 4-9 line stanzas, varying rhyming schemes (typically ABAC or ABAB) THEMES/MOTIFS/SYMBOLISM Mariner as enchanter  He holds him with his glittering eye—  The Wedding-Guest stood still,  And listens like a three years' child:   15  The Mariner hath his will. Albatross as Christian symbol  At length did cross an Albatross,  Thorough the fog it came;  As if it had been a Christian soul,  We hail'd it in God's name. Killing a Christian symbol!!!!! Blasphemy!!!!  'God save thee, ancient Mariner!  From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—  Why look'st thou so?'—'With my crossbow  I shot the Albatross. The ship stops moving after killing the albatross, perhaps signifying that without God, there is pur