...eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! William Wordsworth (1770-1850) wrought a quiet revolution in poetry. He rejected the artificial conventions...

...register, but now one replete with metaphor, and as vatic as the Latinate. Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (11. 164-168) In the...

...register, but now one replete with metaphor, and as vatic as the Latinate. Our Souls have sight ofthat immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (11. 164-168) In the...

...eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never: Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. X Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!...

...eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never: Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. 5 Both the great and the lesser mythologies of...

...discussing the power of the imagination to bring back to us some remnants of our 'glorious' youth: Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (lines 163-9) Pascoli instead dramatizes these...