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Fear in Wordsworths My sprightliness leaps up when I behold, We ar Seven, Tintern Abbey, and Resolution and IndependenceFear in Wordsworths My heart leaps up when I behold, We Are Seven, Tintern Abbey, and Resolution and IndependenceRomantic song conjures in the mind of many people escorts of sweet, pastoral landscapes populated by picturesque citizens who live in quaint houses in rustic villages, with sheep browse on green-swathed hills, while a young swain plights his troth to his somewhat young maiden, who reclines demurely amidst the clover and smiles sunnily. William Wordsworth is perhaps the archetypal Romantic poet his about famous poem, I wandered lonely as a cloud, would calculate on first reading to support the traditional, one could say stereotypical, image of a Romantic poet. Even his name, Words-worth, reinforces that image. And yet, upon looking more closely and guardedly at his works, it becomes clear that the emotions which motivate his creativity are not ex clusively a love of nature and pastorality.Let us consider Wordsworths My heart leaps up when I behold. The poem can be understand on a very simple level as a typical Romantic poem there is the glorying in and of nature that or so people immediately think of when Romantic poetry is mentioned. The speaker is excite when he sees a rainbow, he was thrilled in his youth when he saw a rainbow, and when he is old he will dwell to be thrilled by seeing a rainbow if he cannot be thrilled, he would rather be dead. The speakers life has a kind of continuity, of stability, through the process of memory. The reader can wipe away a dissipate and mumble Isnt that nice?, and switch on Threes Company this interpretation affirms our guts of what poets should fee... ...rom finding In that decrepit Man so firm a mind (line 145), finding, however temporarily, a source of courage against his fears (lines 146-147)God, said I, be my overhaul and stay secure Ill think of the Leech-gatherer on the lonely moor. Works Cited whole quotations are taken from the following book, references given parenthetically within the textual matterStephen Gill, editor. The Oxford Authors William Wordsworth. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1986.o The Idiot Boy, pp. 67-80 o Michael, pp. 224-236 o My heart leaps up when I behold, pp. 246-247 o Resolution and Independence, pp. 260-264 o Tintern Abbey, pp. 131-135 o We Are Seven, p. 84 except, where indicated by Coleridge, fromDonald A. Stauffer, editor. Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge. Random shack New York, 1951.o Dejection An Ode, pp. 78-82