青苔石畔紫罗兰， 半隐半现于眼前， 凄美犹如星一点 独自闪耀在长天。
伊人在世无人知， 伊人离世无人提， 而今已是人天隔， 惟有诗客情自迷。
Relevant Background
Wordsworth grew up in England’s Lake District and spent much of his life there. • Lucy may have been Dorothy, the poet’s beloved sister and companion. In that case, this poem imagines the beautiful and solitary life of Dorothy who lived close to nature. It dramatises the poet’s grief at her future death. • This poem is one of a group of five poems called ‘The Lucy Poems’.
Main Idea
• William Wordsworth returned to the Wye valley in July 1798, five years after he had first toured the region with his sister, Dorothy. • As he looks at the valley, through the lens of memory, he sees himself—both as he once was, and as he is now. • With his “Lines,” Wordsworth attempts to make sense of the changes he has undergone, and, in the process, he offers some interesting insights into the machinery of memory and the Romantic lyric.
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
• Specifically: the poet says, in his youth he was thoughtless in his unity with the woods and the river; now, five years since his last viewing of the scene, he is no longer thoughtless, but acutely aware of everything the scene has to offer him.
• Subject: childhood memories of communion with natural beauty. • Theme: the memory of pure communion with nature in childhood works upon the mind even in adulthood, when access to that pure communion has been lost, and that the maturity of mind present in adulthood offers compensation for the loss of that communion
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
William Wordsworth 华兹华斯 is the most representative poet of English Romanticism.He was born into a lawyer’s family at Cockermouth, Cumberland. His parents died when he was very young. He was taken care of by his relatives.
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Structure
*In the first stanza, Wordsworth describes the isolated, untouched and beautiful place where Lucy lived. He shows that her beauty mainly went un-noticed.
He got his education at the Grammar School of Hawkshead,He was a worshipper of nature from his childhood. In 1787,he studied at Cambridge University. In1790-1792: tour to France. In 1795 he and his sister Dorothy settled down in Racedown, Dorsetshire. they lived a frugal life. In 1797 he made friends with Coleridge. In1843 he was named Poet Laureate.
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
•她住在人迹罕至的地方 , 圣洁的小溪在身边流淌,
没有谁把这少女赞颂, 少有人为她挂肚牵肠。
伊人居处车马稀， 鸽河源头傍清溪， 远离尘世无人颂， 深爱一人有阿谁？
她是紫罗兰身影半露, 生苔的墓碑将她遮挡; 美丽如一颗孤星, 在夜空里闪闪发亮。 没有谁了解她曾活在世上, 少有人知道她何时夭亡; 躺在墓中的露西啊, 唯有我与别人都不一样。
Writing Career
In 1798,Wordsworth and his partner,Coleridge published the Lyrical Ballads.Coleridge's contribution was his masterpiece the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.The majority of poems in this collection,however,were written by Wordsworth. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century,ie. ,with classicism,and the begining of the Romantic revival in England. Two years later,Wordsworth public the preface.And the preface served as the manifesto of the English Movement in peotry.
*In the second stanza, he compares her shy beauty to a hidden flower. This shows her innocence. He compares her innocence, aloneness and purity to a single star. This is probably Venus, which appears alone after sunset. *In the third stanza, Wordsworth shows that Lucy was unknown and died young. Her death is a cause of deep personal grief to Wordsworth.
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Major Works
• Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey丁登寺杂咏 • Lyrical Ballads抒情歌谣集（I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud我好似一朵孤独的流云； Composed upon Westminster Bridge 写 于威斯敏斯特桥上；London） • Lucy Poems露丝诗组(She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways她走在人迹罕至的路 边;A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal) • The Solitary Reaper孤独的刈麦女 • The Excursion远足 • The Prelude序曲
Influence of William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth's Poetic Theory shook the British rule of classical poetics. • a strong influence to innovation and the English Romantic poetry movement. ● His good poetry was written during the first decade of his literary career(17981807),his later writing were full of mysticism and many of them unreadable.
Wordsworth base his own poetical principle that"all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling." • Wordsworth 's way of writing poetry is summed up by George Brands thus:"He collects winter store of bright summer moments."