"Yes, I remember, when the changeful earth, / And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd / The faces of the moving year."
— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Work Title
Date
w. 1805
Metaphor
"Yes, I remember, when the changeful earth, / And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd / The faces of the moving year."
Metaphor in Context
Yes, I remember, when the changeful earth,
And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd
The faces of the moving year, even then,
A Child, I held unconscious intercourse
With the eternal Beauty, drinking in
A pure organic pleasure from the lines
Of curling mist, or from the level plain
Of waters colour'd by the steady clouds.
(Book I, pp. 33-4, ll. 586-593)
And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd
The faces of the moving year, even then,
A Child, I held unconscious intercourse
With the eternal Beauty, drinking in
A pure organic pleasure from the lines
Of curling mist, or from the level plain
Of waters colour'd by the steady clouds.
(Book I, pp. 33-4, ll. 586-593)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Jonathan Wordsworth's "As with the Silence of Thought" in High Romantic Argument (Cornell UP), p. 41.
Citation
Text from The Prelude: or Growth of a Poet's Mind, ed. by Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926).
Date of Entry
08/25/2013
