![]() In the sestet he explains how Milton could improve the present situation of England if he was alive. In the octave of this sonnet Wordsworth wishes that Milton was still alive as England has fallen drastically since Milton’s period with its people becoming selfish and morally stagnant. It describes the narrator’s journey to her cottage and his thoughts along the way. ‘Strange fits of passion have I known’ which revolves around a fantasy of Lucy’s death is the most famous among the “Lucy poems”. ![]() Whether Lucy was a figment of Wordsworth’s imagination or a real person is not known and the character remains a matter of intense speculation among historians and his fans. All of them revolve around a girl named Lucy who has died young. #8 Strange fits of passion have I known John Milton is mentioned in the poem London, 1802Īfter Wordsworth’s death, critics and publishers grouped five of his poems written between 17 as “Lucy poems”. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The sight was majestically beautiful and in the poem Wordsworth reflects how his daughter is unaffected by the majesty of the scene as being young she is one with nature. This sonnet describes an evening walk on the beach which Wordsworth took with his nine years old daughter Caroline in Calais, France in August 1802. #9 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free He realizes that duty, though stern, is also graceful and divinely beautiful and hence he is willing to serve it more strictly. Although he recognizes the worth of love and joy, he is now not sure whether blindly trusting them can guide man to all good. In ‘Ode to Duty’ Wordsworth conveys the importance of duty which is like a light that guides us and a rod which prevents us from erring. ![]() #10 Ode to Duty Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon
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