LINES WRITTEN IN MARCH BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

LINES WRITTEN IN MARCH BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

1. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S LINES WRITTEN IN MARCH PRIYA PONNU VARGHESE B.ED- ENGLISH

2. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

3. The cock is crowing,

4. The stream is flowing,

5. The small birds twitter,

6. The lake doth glitter,

7. The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest;

8. The cattle are grazing,  Their heads never raising;  There are forty feeding like one;  

9. Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill;  The plough boy is whooping –anon-anon;  There’s joy in the mountains;  There’s life in the fountains;  Small clouds are sailing,  Blue sky prevailing;  The rain is over and gone. 

10. PLOUGH BOY

11. TENSE FORMS PRESENT PAST PAST PARTICIPLE Flow Flowed Flowed Work Worked Worked Defeat Defeated Defeated

12. NUMBERS SINGULAR PLURAL Bird Birds Cattle Cattle Boy Boys Cloud Clouds

13. RHYMING WORDS CROWING FLOWING TWITTER GLITTER YOUNGEST STRONGEST GRAZING RAISING DEFEATED RETREATED FARE ILL BARE HILL SAILING PREVAILING

14. APPRECIATION OF THE POEM William Wordsworth is one of the greatest English poets. In the poem, “Lines Written in March” the poet clearly describes the tranquil beauty of nature after the winter. The poem presents the intense happiness of the creatures of the withdrawal of the winter season. Each and every living and nonliving things are ready to welcome spring with the people of that village. At the outset of the poem describes the bright morning of a village. The poet uses of all visual images to glorify the beauty of that morning, such as birds, glittering of lake etc.

15. People are very eager to do hard work in their fields. The cattle graze in the meadows. All this happiness is the result of the withdrawal of the winter season. The winter is the worst time of the year. The snow has just gone. A little snow remains at mountain tops. Sky seems so beautiful with the sailing clouds. All of these are the signs of a bright spring, the season of fortune and prosperity. The poetic device used in this poem was personification. For example, in the line "The green field sleeps in the sun, " he is saying that the fields are sleeping, but fields are nonliving things and cannot really sleep. Also in one line of the poem a similie was used. This poem also uses rhyme.