V6 P1 W5 Wordsworth

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Basic rules

• We do our work when we should
• We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
• Our phone is in our "zakkie" on the corner of our table
• We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class

read the rest of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

- What is the moral of the story?

- Why does the mariner go around telling his story?

- List the Romantic aspects of the story with an example where you can find it in the text.

click here for the text (read part V, VI & VII)

     He prayeth well, who loveth well

     Both man and bird and beast.

     He prayeth best, who loveth best

     All things both great and small;

     For the dear God who loveth us,

     He made and loveth all.

learning goals

I know the most important ideas and works by Wordsworth.

cyclical nature of life

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cyclical nature of life

with God

Child with subconscious remembrance of life with God

corruption by society

William Wordsworth 

(1770 – 1850)

(aka my favourite poet)

William Wordsworth

- lost both his parents quite young

- walking tour of Europe --> French Revolution

-  fell in love with Annette Vallon, had a bastard daughter

- married Mary Hutchinson, had five kids of which two died.

- lost the will to write later in life

1798: The Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge (everyday language and presenting an original way of looking at nature.)

recollection in tranquillity

The idea that when you are reminded of something that happened in the past, you do not just remember the event. The emotions the event originally evoked also recur. 

Which of the two ideas is expressed in the following poems?

www.poetryfoundation.org

www.poetryfoundation.org

homework

Choose one of the two poems we've read today and find the literary devices and sound techniques you've studied last year.

(the recap is in the shared Lessonups in case you forgot.

Class code: EKSZR)