 | Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 404 pages
...world is not meant to inspire social action but the poetry that will echo Wordsworth's own; he writes for the sake Of youthful Poets, who among these Hills Will be my second Self when I am gone.9 It was Wordsworth's conceit that personal experience had brought him the knowledge of the right... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 432 pages
...which is analogous to a father— son relationship, in which repetition is the guarantee of survival: Therefore, although it be a history Homely and rude,...these Hills Will be my second self when I am gone. (ll. But to imagine the reader as a 'second self has its own dangers, hinted at (ironically and involuntarily)... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life....hills Will be my second self when I am gone. Upon the forest side in Grasmere Vale There dwelt a shepherd, Michael was his name; An old man, stout of heart,... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...(477—78, 481). In addition, there is the speaker's awareness of his own mortality in his concern for the "youthful Poets, who among these hills / Will be my second self when I am gone" (38—39) and in his implicit attempt to be the son to Michael that Luke was not, substituting the... | |
 | Robert Pack - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 268 pages
...objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life....second self when I am gone. Upon the forest-side in (irasmere Vale There dwelt a Shepherd, Michael was his name; An old man, stout of heart, and strong... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...objects led me on to feel 30 For passions that were not my own, and think At random and imperfecdy indeed On man; the heart of man and human life. Therefore, although it be a history For the delight of a few natural hearts, And with yet fonder feeling, for the sake Of youthful Poets,... | |
 | Kurt Fosso - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
..."Michael,'"" 1 which similarly point to a "history / Homely and rude," but which is told by the narrator "for the sake / Of youthful Poets, who among these Hills / Will be my second Self when I am gone" (LB, ll. 34-39). Better than in his well-known epistle to Charles James Fox, in a letter to Thomas... | |
 | Sandra Heinen, Harald Nehr - Comprehension (Theory of knowledge) - 2004 - 326 pages
...spirits" nachlassen könnten,46 in „Michael" erzählt der Sprecher von dem gleichnamigen Schäfer „for the sake / Of youthful Poets, who among these Hills / Will be my second seif" und weist sich dadurch implizit als Dichter aus.47 In dem schon angesprochenen Gedicht „Resolution... | |
 | John Kenneth MacKay - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 321 pages
...objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life....these hills Will be my second self when I am gone. (11. 21-39) As David Simpson has argued, Wordsworth places the actual shepherd world inhabited by Michael... | |
 | D. J. Moores - Mysticism in literature - 2006 - 260 pages
...TRANSATLANTIC BRIDGE 1 'I will relate the story of Michael for the delight of a few natural hearts, for the sake of youthful poets, who among these hills will be my second self when I I am gone' (Wordsworth) Despite that Wordsworth and Whitman are the two principal Romantics in the... | |
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Therefore, although it be a history Homely and rude, I will relate the same For the delight of a few natural hearts, And with yet fonder feeling, for the sake Of youthful Poets, who among these Hills Will be my second self when I am gone. 
