Cleanth Brooks discusses how this poet renews a "stale metaphor" with a poem's final lines, "Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; and all that mighty heart is lying still." One of his poems describes a girl who "seemed a thing that could not feel /
Cleanth Brooks discusses how this poet renews a "stale metaphor" with a poem's final lines, "Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; and all that mighty heart is lying still." One of his poems describes a girl who "seemed a thing that could not feel / the touch of earthly years" while another poem claims, "getting and spending we lay waste to our powers." This poet of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" created a speaker who hopes to "hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn" in his sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us." This poet claims his mind "shall be a mansion for all lovely forms" after reminiscing about his sister Dorothy and the River Wye. For 10 points, name this Romantic poet who wrote "Tintern Abbey."
Cleanth Brooks discusses how this poet renews a "stale metaphor" with a poem's final lines, "Dear God!
William Wordsworth