Questions and Answers

Part 1

Answer A

These lines are extracted from the “Reflection on the revolution in France” written by Edmund Burk in 1814. It was printed at the revived Apollo Press (Damrosch, et al. 2009).

Answer B

These lines are the work of William Wordsworth. It first appeared in the “The Friend” in 1809. Later they were placed among the “Poems of the Imagination” in all editions from 1815 and afterwards (Damrosch, et al. 2009).

Answer C

These lines are taken from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” written by William Blake and composed between 1790 and 1793. It is a series of texts that was written in replication of biblical prophecy (Damrosch, et al. 2009).

Answer D

It is an extract from “The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or Gustavus Vassa, the African” which is written by Olaudah Equiano himself in 1745.

Answer E

These lines are taken from the prose collection of William Wordsworth, named “The Prose Works of William Wordsworth”. These lines were written under the essay “Of the principles of poetry and the lyrical ballads (1798-1802)” (Damrosch, et al. 2009).

Part 2

Identifying the Poem and reflection

These lines are taken from the long poem “Lines composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798” written by William Wordsworth. This is a long poem and by the time Wordsworth reaches this line he becomes a matured thinking man. His thoughts are colored with the memories and sensibility is accustomed to the presence of something which is beyond and behind what his senses could perceive in the natural settings. These lines let the readers conclude that Wordsworth might have been proposing a type of pantheism in which the divine infused with the natural world and everything becomes God. At the same time, he is trying to persuade himself that the encrusted admiration of the sublime is an enhancement in the inconsiderate thrill of the wandering child. This “presence” may refer to some spiritual consciousness or God. On the other hand, it may simply refer to the amalgamated existence of the natural world (Britt, 2012). Wordsworth, in the interrelatedness of nature, discovers the sublime agreement which he cannot locate in humankind. Owing to this fact he reaches to nature with just about religious passion.

For the post, mysticism is a kind of fleeing of the presence of any spirit or motion which is a power that holds all of the nature with its existence. Although he never reveals God clearly because his agreement is the persistent character of nature, a presence of something mysterious which can be called God in nature by other people. The speaker in this poem elaborates that why recalling the natural beauty may cause him feel calm and serene. He identifies that it is nature which brings music humanity to the mind. It is important because nature turns his thoughts to humanity. He also informs his readers that it is nature that turns his attention to the requirement of ...