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Wordsworth's A Slumber.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20060622
Author:Deshmane, Chetan

 
    A slumber did my spirit seal; 
    I had no human fears: 
    She seemed a thing that could not feel 
    The touch of earthly years. 
 
    No motion has she now, no force; 
    She neither hears nor sees; 
    Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, 
    With rocks, and stones, and trees.

Wordsworth's "A Slumber" continues to be an enigma best illustrated in the antithetical nature of Brooks and Warren's inquiry. (1) Any attempt to interpret this poem requires that we assume either that the woman in the poem is dead or that she is not dead; one's view of the speaker's ...

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