Literatura inglesa

Literatura inglesa

Read the two poems below. One is by Wordsworth and the other by Coleridge. Find elements in them that show the distinctive way in which each poet approaches poetry ‘in a Romantic way’.

“STRANGE fits of passion have I known” 1) STRANGE fits of passion have I known: 1) And I will dare to tell, 2) But in the lover’s ear alone, 3) What once to me befell. 4) When she I loved look’d every day 5 5) Fresh as a rose in June, 6) I to her cottage bent my way, 7) Beneath an evening moon. 8) Upon the moon I fix’d my eye, 9) All over the wide lea; 10 10) With quickening pace my horse drew nigh 11) Those paths so dear to me. 12) And now we reach’d the orchard-plot; 13) And, as we climb’d the hill, 14) The sinking moon to Lucy’s cot 15 15) Came near and nearer still. 16) In one of those sweet dreams I slept, 17) Kind Nature’s gentlest boon! 18) And all the while my eyes I kept 19) On the descending moon. 20 20) My horse moved on; hoof after hoof 21) He raised, and never stopp’d: 22) When down behind the cottage roof, 23) At once, the bright moon dropp’d. 24) What fond and wayward thoughts will slide 25 25) Into a lover’s head! 26) ‘O mercy!’ to myself I cried, 27) ‘If Lucy should be dead!’
(Wordsworth)
“Despair”
I have experienc'd
The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst
That can make Life indifferent, yet