Two Poems by William Wordsworth

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This paper explains that Wordsworth, considered one of the greatest and most influential romantic poets, is know for his emotionally charged description of nature used as a basis for exploring moral and philosophical issues. The author points out that both the poems by William Wordsworth "Incident: Characteristics of a Favorite Dog" and "Tribute to the Memory of the Same Dog", which refer to a dog owned by Mrs. Wordsworth's brother, represent Wordsworth's style of steady, musical and "eternal" repetition. The paper concludes that, as brilliant as his poems showed him to be, Wordsworth was by nature a simple man of simple pleasures, who reflected the daily lives of common men in his poetry and prose, as reflected in both "Incident: Characteristics of a Favorite Dog" and "To the Memory of the Same Dog". Many quotes.

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"He spoke in "Memory of the Same Dog", in the last two lines, "Our tears from passion and from reason came, And, therefore, shalt thou be an honoured name!" referring to passion and full emotion often and ending such poems on such a note even if in the beginning it had begun flat and lifeless which was true of this poem. He sought the passion and full liveliness in the ending of most all of his poems, these two included, even if it was begun in a dull and lifeless fashion as in "To the Memory of the Same Dog." Whether, it was the passion to hold onto life which was recounted in "Characteristic of a Favourite Dog" by the dog who was sinking which chasing over a river to break through the ice in a furry. Also, in the dog who died of old age after a full lifetime where he was laid to rest, where the passion was from the "tears from passion and from reason came" for those who grieved for the loss of a dog known to be ill and old."

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