William Wordsworth was the son of the dominant owner of lands of their region. Unlike Blake, this author graduated form John’s College of Cambridge, He spent two years in France after the fall of the Bastille. Wordsworth had many losses in his life, however reunited with his sister Dorothy and married a childhood friend. He continued to write through out his life, later the next generation though he stopped being republican and became democrat. Wordsworth was a poet of nature, he provide a moral philosophy of life and consolation to readers. (P1521) Matthew Arnold scored him third only to Milton and Shakespeare in English poetry. This author was not easy to understand, Simon Lee was the only poem I really understood.
Simon Lee was a seventy years old man that was once tall but looked little because he was old. He had no family, no children to care for him beside his old wife. He was forced to work in his old age in his private property; his wife helped him whenever she was able. The old man still found happiness in hearing the chiming bounds. Simon Lee is the poorest of his community, he got no help from anyone, no one noticed him and cared; he had a land that is worthless since he cannot work on it; considering his health condition and his age. William Wordsworth called his readers to make a tale out of this situation and make their own conclusion. I think it is not normal for such nice an old man be working alone just to survive and that no one offer him help or cared. When Wordsworth saw the old man working on an old tree, he offered him help, Simon Lee was so surprise and happy that he cried. The expressions of the old man made Wordsworth thing that unkind men still exist, that people did not have any heart since help was precious to this old man. Then he started mourning about his own old ages since this unkindness of people would still exist then.
He was right!!!! It still exits...old people still find their way around by themselves, young people do not help or sometimes, the ones who want to help are affraid because they do not want to hurt the old people feeling....maybe? I get that feeeling sometimes....
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Kassia,
This posting is much more successful than your one on Blake because you limit yourself to a single poem by Wordsworth and explore it in more detail. I like the way you provide insights into what the poem says and also connect it to human nature and your experiences today. Nice job! Try to do more of this in your subsequent postings.
Kassia,
I like how you talk about one poem in this posting it allowed you to give more detail. Great Job! I agree Wordsworth does have a connection with nature in his poetry.
I too wrote about William's poem "Simon Lee". I thought it was interesting that he didn't finish his poem but in the background information William was quoted saying "ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way." He was trying to explain why he didn't finish his poem. He wanted his readers to come up with an ending for themselves.
I agree with Kassia. I thought this blog was better because it was more in depth. In comparison, this blog was more insightful, and I felt like you could see the work and effort you put into it quite clearly. The point I enjoyed with Wordsworth is the "connection with nature." I really enjoyed "Simoon Lee."
You know you and Wordsworth are right about the unkindness of people. It does indeed still exist, but it is up to the people who realize this to try to make a change. Things are not going to just change by themselves. It takes the individual to try to bring change about. We must all work to bring kindness back into the world.
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