Ppt practicum
- 4. THE LINES WRITTEN IN MARCH -WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
- 6. William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
- 7. , The cock is crowing,
- 8. The stream is flowing,
- 9. The small birds twitter,
- 10. The lake doth glitter The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing,
- 11. Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The plowboy is whooping – anon – anon There’s joy in the mountains; There’s life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone!
- 12. The poem is about the happiness of the withdrawal of winter season. All things in nature are happy. The cock is crowing ,the stream is flowing, the cattle are grazing, the small clouds are sailing and the blue sky is prevailing. There are a lot of word-pictures in the poem which mark the arrival of spring season.
- 13. In the line 'the plough boy is whooping anon-anon'- the word anon is repeated to show the happiness of the plough boy. The poet has compared the retreating winter season to a defeated army. Winter represents the bad time of the year ,when there is illness, poverty etc. The crowing of the cock suggests the end of the winter season This is a beautiful poem which has rhyme and rhythm too.
- 14. VOCABULARY • TWITTER-CHIRP SOUND OF BIRDS • GLITTER-SHINE BRIGHTLY WITH FLASHES OF LIGHT • GRAZING-EAT GROWING GRASS • RETREAT-ESCAPE OF AN ARMY OR ACT OF RETREATING • WHOOPING-CRYING LOUDLY
- 15. RHYMING WORDS • CROWING - FLOWING • TWITTER - GLITTER • GRAZING -RAISING
- 16. FIND OUT THE WORD PICTURES FROM THE POEM