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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Fountain

The subtitle identifies the poem as conversation. The situation is not a
journey but leisure "beneath a spreading oak. . . ." The poet and Matthew are
talking "with open heart, and tongue / Affectionate and true. . . ." The poet
is young, Matthew is seventy-two. One might expect, therefore that the poet
as youth will learn something about life from a source of greater maturity.
But, the poet does not ask for truth; rather, the first element of dialogue
in the poem is in the poet's request to Matthew that the schoolmaster join
him in the ...

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