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Fear in Wordsworths My soreness leaps up when I behold, We Are Seven, Tintern Abbey, and Resolution and IndependenceFear in Wordsworths My heart leaps up when I behold, We Are Seven, Tintern Abbey, and Resolution and Independence amative poetry conjures in the mind of many people images of sweet, pastoral landscapes dwell by picturesque citizens who live in quaint houses in rural villages, with sheep grazing on green-swathed hills, while a young swain plights his meshing to his fair young maiden, who reclines demurely amidst the clover and smiles sunnily. William Wordsworth is perhaps the archetypal romanticist poet his most famous poem, I wandered lonely as a infect, would seem on first reading to support the traditional, one could consecrate stereotypical, image of a Romantic poet. Even his name, Words-worth, reinforces that image. And yet, upon looking more intimately and carefully at his works, it becomes clear that the emotions which motivate his creativity are non solel y a love of spirit and pastorality.Let us escort Wordsworths My heart leaps up when I behold. The poem can be interpreted on a very simple level as a typical Romantic poem there is the glorying in and of nature that most people immediately think of when Romantic poetry is mentioned. The speaker system is thrilled when he sees a rainbow, he was thrilled in his juvenility when he saw a rainbow, and when he is old he provide continue to be thrilled by seeing a rainbow if he cannot be thrilled, he would rather be dead. The speakers life has a assortment of continuity, of stability, through the process of memory. The reader can wipe away a tear and mumble Isnt that nice?, and switch on Threes Company this interpretation af soakeds our sense of what poets should fee... ...rom finding In that decrepit Man so firm a mind (line 145), finding, however temporarily, a source of courage against his fears (lines 146-147)God, verbalise I, be my help and stay secure Ill think of the Leech- gatherer on the lonely moor. flora CitedAll quotations are taken from the following book, references given parenthetically deep down the textStephen Gill, editor. The Oxford Authors William Wordsworth. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1986.o The Idiot Boy, pp. 67-80 o Michael, pp. 224-236 o My heart leaps up when I behold, pp. 246-247 o Resolution and Independence, pp. 260-264 o Tintern Abbey, pp. 131-135 o We Are Seven, p. 84 except, where indicated by Coleridge, fromDonald A. Stauffer, editor. Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge. haphazard House New York, 1951.o Dejection An Ode, pp. 78-82