...For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimea The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating,...ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt 4CO SPECIMEN OF WORDSWORTH S VEKSE. A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts;...

...notably, in my opinion, beginning with line 85: Not for this [the joys and raptures of a lost time) Faint I. nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, 1 would believe. Abundant recompense. For 1 have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless...

...of human existence and in that lesson learn an abiding compassion and discover one's own humanity: For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.35 This educated sensibility could open up to a curriculum whose courses...

...poetic expression to how our view of nature can change as a result of such a personal moment of vision: For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh or grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And...

...is a symptom of his desperation. He may assure us that he is reconciled to his losses Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. (85-88) but his assurances reflect his very demoralization: he is too convinced and too...

...develop more deeply the multiple aspects of religious spatiality. 1. THE MYSTICAL STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And...

...That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing...

...characterize so much theoretical work today, we might recall the importance that Wordsworth ascribed to "the still, sad music of humanity, / Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power / To chasten and subdue." Half created and half perceived, a compound of memory and sensation, this...

...another way of taking on Shakespeare 'by heart'. So I cannot memorize poems anymore. 'Not for this / Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur: other gifts / Have followed; for such loss, 1 would believe, / Abundant recompense' (Wordsworth, 'Tinrern Abbey') Though I can no longer get poems...

...Wordsworth wandered over the hills and beside the lakes, looking and learning. In his mature years he wrote, For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.14 Wordsworth, the poet, had learned to look and learn far differently from Watt,...