Category: Wordsworth

What Good Is Poetry? Wordsworth’s Lament in ‘The World Is Too Much with Us

One way or another, people must make sense of the world, but how they come to that understanding begs the question of what it means to understand something. Does understanding hang on things like structure or significance or something else altogether? Poetry is one way to come to an understanding of things on several levels….


What Good Is Poetry? Wordsworth’s ‘The Rainbow’

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound…