This document provides analysis of the poem "The Lines Written in March" by William Wordsworth. It summarizes that the poem celebrates the arrival of spring after winter's retreat, describing happy natural sights like the crowing cock, flowing stream, grazing cattle, and sailing clouds against a blue sky. Key features of the analysis include explaining the use of repetition in "anon-anon" to convey the plowboy's happiness, and comparing winter to a defeated army while spring brings an end to hardship. In conclusion, it praises the poem for its rhyme, rhythm, and vivid word pictures.

4. THE LINES WRITTEN IN
MARCH
-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

5. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

6. William Wordsworth (7 April
1770 – 23 April 1850)
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.
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered
to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of
his early years which he revised and expanded a
number of times. It was posthumously titled and
published, prior to which it was generally known as
"the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's
Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

7. ,
The cock is crowing,

8. The stream is flowing,

9. The small birds twitter,

10. 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,

11. 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 rain is over and gone!

12. The poem is about the happiness of the
withdrawal of winter season. All things in
nature are happy. The cock is crowing ,the
stream is flowing, the cattle are grazing, the
small clouds are sailing and the blue sky is
prevailing. There are a lot of word-pictures in
the poem which mark the arrival of spring
season.

13. In the line 'the plough boy is whooping anon-anon'-
the word anon is repeated to show the
happiness of the plough boy. The poet has
compared the retreating winter season to a
defeated army. Winter represents the bad time
of the year ,when there is illness, poverty etc.
The crowing of the cock suggests the end of
the winter season This is a beautiful poem
which has rhyme and rhythm too.

14. VOCABULARY
• TWITTER-CHIRP SOUND OF BIRDS
• GLITTER-SHINE BRIGHTLY WITH
FLASHES OF LIGHT
• GRAZING-EAT GROWING GRASS
• RETREAT-ESCAPE OF AN ARMY OR ACT
OF RETREATING
• WHOOPING-CRYING LOUDLY

15. RHYMING WORDS
• CROWING - FLOWING
• TWITTER - GLITTER
• GRAZING -RAISING

16. FIND OUT THE WORD
PICTURES FROM THE POEM