This assignment is to complete a 2 page, double spaced, essay responding to two out of three prompts below on William Wordsworth the two part prelude, only focusing on part I. Your essay should be plagarism free, grammar error free, and should flow and make logical sense. Be sureto cite direct textual evidence often, not parantheical citations. Please use and cite from the editon of the text attached. You will see three prompts below but your essay only needs to respond to 2/3 prompts but should be 1 cohesive essay adressing two of the prompts clearly.
1. On a first reading, the poem may seem long and rambling, a mere effusion composed of nothing more than the poet’s scattered memories and recollections rendered in blank verse. A second reading, however, reveals certain recurring patterns and hints of order. How is the poem organized? What kinds of devices does Wordsworth rely on to organize it? Are there repeated motifs, images, words, associations, temporal markers that you detect? What is the thematic significance of these repetitions?
2. Close read and analyze the gibbet scene (I: 302-327). What is the point of this scene? How does it reveal the workings of the speaker’s mind, the “growth” of the mind? What does Wordsworth mean by the odd phrase “visionary dreariness” (l. 322)?
3. In what relation does the poem stand to the earlier credal lyric, “Tintern Abbey”? Does The Two-Part Prelude represent a departure from the themes and issues of “Tintern Abbey,” an extension of them, or something else? How about the poem’s intuitions of the divine and its depiction of nature? Cite textual evidence.
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