...beings has often been seriously illustrated in a somewhat similar way ;" and he quotes Wordsworth : "No motion has she now, no force — She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees." Still more similar is In Memoriam, Iv. " Shall man," the poet asks, " Who loved,...

...beings has often been seriously illustrated in a somewhat similar way;" and he quotes Wordsworth: " No motion has she now, no force — She neither hears nor sees, Rolled round in earth's dmrnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees." Still more similar is /« Memoriam, Iv. " Shall man,"...

...me This heath, this calm, and quiet scene ; The memory of what has been, And never more will be. Iv. A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears...no force ; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round on earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. y. SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways...

...death. They are simply perfect, each in its own delightful way. Most sad, but wonderful verses : — " A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. With rocks, and stones, and trees." Here the terrible outward appearance of death mesmerises with strong eyes,...

...by, but which to others will represent, in its stern brevity, the tragic rising to the terrible — A slumber did my spirit seal, I had no human fears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees. That these poems are love -poems is certain : whether they were founded on reality,...

...to conform to Eco's regimen. This is the systemic framework he establishes for reading these lines: A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears:...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees. In Hartman's reading, '"diurnal' (line 7) divides into 'die' and 'urn,' and 'course'...

...yet remain quite unaware of the fact: A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seem'da thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years....has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; RolI'd round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees. What Galileo did was to find...

...through their leaves' with what happens in Wordsworth's poem when he famously tunes the Newtonian organ: No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees. If we grant that 'intimate atmospheres' circulate at a pedagogically correct...

...close to ordinary spoken language. For example: A slumber did my spitit seal; I had no human tears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. Somerimes he uses more complex grammar and vocabulary, as we can see from the above examples. Words...

...Wordsworth moves backward in time, from consequence to cause, out of sleep and into the waking mind: A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears:...Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.13 In the shift from first to third person, this poem truly seems to be upside...