In line 3 the boy, too young to articulate clearly, is calling out his trade in the streets--sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep but the poet is telling us that we should weep over his pitiful plight. In lines 7-8 the innocent boy is genuinely trying to comfort his friend and does not recognize, as the poet does, the ironic discrepancy between the comfort he intends and the lack of comfort he actually off
Introduction
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Debut
Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John`s Colleg
In line 3 the boy, too young to articulate clearly, is calling out his trade in the streets--sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep but the poet is telling us that we should weep over his pitiful plight. In lines 7-8 the innocent boy is genuinely trying to comfort his friend and does not recognize, as the poet does, the ironic discrepancy between the comfort he intends and the lack of comfort he actually off
Brief introduction of the poem and the poet
“Refugee ship” is a poem about the poet’s identity which is one of the main topic of chicano American potery.
From a young age, she was discouraged from speaking Spanish and only taught English in order to protect her from the racism that pervaded her time. This loss of language and a struggle to find her true identity helped inspire her poet
Herman Melville
Born in 1819. 8. 1 in New York city
Died in 1891. 9. 28
Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Family’s bankrupt and father’s death → had to work a lot
South seas adventure
Tragic insight of human and life, symbolism
“Typee”(1846), “Moby Dick”(1851)
Summary
The narrator is a lawyer working in Wall Street. He hires Bartleby, the Scrivener and problem begins. Bartleby r