...anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; (11. 6-8) I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. (11. 13-14) Wordsworth is arguing for simplicity of diction, and in the process focuses on lines that...

...Death of Richard West," the closing couplet of which expresses the melancholy lament, "I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear / And weep the more because I weep in vain."6' It is easy to see why these lines, singled out in the Preface, remained so memorable for Wordsworth:...

...fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. Wordsworth seems to assume what countless critics since have assumed about Gray's poem, that direct...

...fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain: 1 fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear. And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Death is real, and mysterious. For the communication of mysteries, originality may fail where the formulas...

...mock-heroics of the Hvmn to Ignorance and the pure unrelieved melancholy of the sonnet to West: I fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. The advantage of this mixed or impure tone is that it avoids the characteristic dangers of both the...

...fields to all their wonted tribute bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain: I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. From the first line, Gray's poem prepares the reader for its repetitive structure. The opening words...