6. William Wordsworth
• Poet
• William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet
who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the
Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint
publication Lyrical Ballads.
• Born: April 7, 1770, Wordsworth House, United Kingdom
• Died: April 23, 1850, Cumberland, United Kingdom
• Nationality: English
• Siblings: Dorothy Wordsworth, Christopher Wordsworth
• Education: Hawkshead Grammar School, University of
Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge
7. Lines Written in March
-William Wordsworth
• The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter
The green field sleeps in the
sun;
The oldest and youngest
Are at work with the
strongest;
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like
one!
• Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The plowboy is whooping-
anon-anon:
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The winter is over and gone!
8. Rhyming Words in the poem
crowing – flowing
twitter – glitter
youngest – strongest
grazing – raising
defeated – retreated
ill – hill
mountains – fountains
sailing – prevailing
9. Word Pictures in this Poem
• Cock is crowing
• Stream is flowing
• Small birds twitter
• Lake doth glitter
• Green fields sleeps in the sun
• Cattle are grazing
• Snow hath retreated
• Top of the bare hill
• The fountains
• Clouds are sailing
• Blue sky prevailing
10. APPRECIATION OF THE POEM "LINES WRITTEN IN MARCH“
Lineswritten in March isapoem written by William
Wordsworth. Thepoem isabout thehappinessof thewithdrawal
of winter season. All thingsin naturearehappy. Thecock is
crowing ,thestream isflowing, thecattlearegrazing, thesmall
cloudsaresailing and thebluesky isprevailing. Therearealot
of word-picturesin thepoem which mark thearrival of spring
season. In theline'theplough boy iswhooping anon-anon'-the
word anon isrepeated to show thehappinessof theplough boy.
Thepoet hascompared theretreating winter season to adefeated
army. Winter representsthebad timeof theyear ,when thereis
illness, poverty etc. Thecrowing of thecock suggeststheend of
thewinter season Thisisabeautiful poem which hasrhymeand
rhythm too.
