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Works of William Wordsworth: The Tables Turned
From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William
Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Tables Turned
The subtitle identifies this poem as an intended sequel to "Expostulation
and Reply": "An Evening Scene on the Same Subject." This poem is probably most
famous for the sixth stanza:
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
It is obviously another anti-book poem. "Books! 'tis dull and endless
strife. . . ." Not only do they create problems in posture, as the second
line of the poem puts it in catchy simplicity, but worse, they cloud man's
countenance.
The ...
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