POET & POEM
This Romantic poet wrote “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal.”
William Wordsworth
This literary movement emphasised emotion and imagination over reason.
Romanticism
The word “slumber” suggests this dream-like state of the speaker
Ignorance/emotional unawareness
Lucy is now completely devoid of motion, force, hearing, and sight.
Death
Lines that flow into each other without punctuation are called this.
Enjambment
This type of poem mourns the death of a loved one.
Elegy
Romantic poets preferred personal experience and this element of the natural world.
beauty
Because of this state, the speaker felt no human fears.
Slumber
“Diurnal course” refers to this movement of the Earth.
Rotation
Giving life-like rhythm to “Earth’s diurnal course” is an example of this device.
Personification
The poem was written in this year.
1799
Feeling awe at a sunset rather than analysing it reflects this Romantic value.
emotion
Lucy seemed untouched by this force of life.
Earthly Years
In death, Lucy becomes part of this larger system.
Nature
Images like “rocks, stones, and trees” create a sense of this.
Stillness
Wordsworth described poetry as the “spontaneous overflow of” these.
Powerful emotions.
Romanticism flourished during this time period.
18th and 19th Cenrury
This phrase suggests Lucy appeared eternal to the speaker.
“could not feel the touch of earthly years”
She is united with rocks, stones, and this natural element.
trees
The poem traces the speaker’s journey from denial to this stage of grief.
acceptance
This symbolic figure in the poem represents innocence and early death.
Lucy
This belief connects humans deeply with nature and its eternal cycles.
Pantheism
The overall mood of the first stanza can best be described as this.
Calm and dreamlike
Though cold and mechanical, Lucy’s union with nature suggests this form of immortality.
Pantheistic immortality
This major Romantic theme links loss with nature’s eternity.
Grief and immortality through nature