 | E. C. Relph - 1981 - 252 pàgines
...poem, wrote: 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, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. (Wordsworth, 1798, p. 68) This is no celebration of human reason but a generalised... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pàgines
...suffered loss. 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, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. ("Tintern Abbey," 1798) That lesson would guide and trouble a great deal of... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pàgines
...Coleridge, and their contemporaries. Wordsworth's consciousness of human weakness and fallibility, The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue — was the hardest lesson of revolution, but for Wordsworth it proved most fruitful.... | |
 | Mark Edmundson - 1995 - 260 pàgines
...cherish: 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, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. 22 The crucial phrase "still, sad music of humanity" beautifully conveys what... | |
 | William G. Rowland - 1996 - 254 pàgines
...these particular concerns in a more general and "universal" meditation and finally to enfold them into The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. (lines 91—93) Wordsworth achieves this magnificent effect of universality... | |
 | Regina Hewitt - 1997 - 254 pàgines
...words of the poem, he learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. (ll. 88-93) In the terms of later sociology, he turned his attention to the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...music. DYLAN THOMAS, (1914-1953) Welsh poet. Mrs. Organ Morgan, in Under Milk Wood (1954). 17 Hearing often-times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, (1770-1850) British poet. "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above... | |
 | Mu Yang, Yang Mu - 1998 - 292 pàgines
...Stream, 1983) 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, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue . . . William Wordsworth Suppose this time we use your perspective as the vantage... | |
 | Alan F. Dixson - 1998 - 564 pàgines
...years. Perhaps Wordsworth was nearer the mark when he said that he had learned to view nature 'not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; hut hearing oftentimes the still. sad music of humanity.' Certainly. there is little room for complacency when viewing modern society's treatment... | |
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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, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. 
