The Tables Turned Presentation

William Wordsworth's poem

1. William Wordsworth

2. William Wordsworth was born on April 7th, 1770
in Cockermouth, Cumberland.
He is considered one of the founders of the
Romantic Movement of the English literature .
Wordsworth was known as a "Lakeland Poet“,
because of the area where he lived, which is
renowned for its beautiful, wild landscapes.
Biography

3. Biography
Wordsworth travelled to the Revolutionary France in 1790, and
spent a year there. The war between France and England
prevented him from returning to France until 1802.
In the same year, he married Mary Hutchinson. They had five
children.
In Dorsetshire (1802),Wordsworth met Samuel Coleridge. The
two formed a mutually beneficial and inspirational relationship,
eventually beginning the English Romantic Movement.
William Wordsworth died on April 23rd, 1850 of pneumonia , in
Rydal Mount.

4. Major Works
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Poems, in two volumes (1807)
The Excursion (1814)
Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822)
The Prelude (1850, posthumous)

5. The Poem: The Tables Turned
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun, above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.

6. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your Teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.

7. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

8. Comprehension Analysis
In “The Tables Turned”, Wordsworth tells his friend
to put his books away and go outside to be part of
nature.
The common theme: Nature as a Teacher .
The poem shows that the education we can receive
from experiencing nature is superior than learn from
books.

9. Figures of Speech
Personification:
Line 1 and 2, stanza 3
How blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Line 4, stanza 3
Let Nature be your teacher.
Stanza 4
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man…

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