1. Wordsworth completed Ode: Intimations on Immortality in 1815. How is it similar to what we read from Lyrical Ballads, which was composed almost two decades earlier? How is it different? (You can discuss its content, its form, or a combination of these.) Please use specific examples.
2. Choose your favorite passage from "Ode" (one line, a few lines, ten lines, whatever) and explain why it is you like it. Part of this explanation should be your interpretation of the line(s).
3. "It is a beauteous evening" was written when Wordsworth visited France and met his illegitimate daughter, Caroline, for the first time (she was ten years old). His sister Dorothy describes the visit on page 400. Wordsworth was about to get married, but first he wanted to set things in order with his former lover and child in France. How does knowing this change the way you read/interpret the sonnet?
4. Watch this video and discuss the elements in Rifkin's presentation about an "empathic civilization" that can be compared to what we have read in Burns, Blake, and Wordsworth. The video is about ten minutes long.
2. Choose your favorite passage from "Ode" (one line, a few lines, ten lines, whatever) and explain why it is you like it. Part of this explanation should be your interpretation of the line(s).
3. "It is a beauteous evening" was written when Wordsworth visited France and met his illegitimate daughter, Caroline, for the first time (she was ten years old). His sister Dorothy describes the visit on page 400. Wordsworth was about to get married, but first he wanted to set things in order with his former lover and child in France. How does knowing this change the way you read/interpret the sonnet?
4. Watch this video and discuss the elements in Rifkin's presentation about an "empathic civilization" that can be compared to what we have read in Burns, Blake, and Wordsworth. The video is about ten minutes long.
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