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the beauty of being". Similarly, David Ferry views "The Two April
Mornings" as Matthew "offered a choice between the living and the dead, and he chooses the dead". However, John Danby disagrees, and believes that Matthew merely does "not wish her mine, to undergo all the risk of loss again". Also, Grob believes that, in "The Two April Mornings", "The most likely explanation... one that receives support from the similar choice made by Matthew in
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a solid foundation in fact and reality, but like him it was also in some degree a composition: I will not, and need not, call it an invention — it was no such thing." The character
Matthew is likely based on Wordsworth's schoolmaster while at Hawkshead, William Taylor, who died in 1786 at the
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Kostelanetz believes that the poems inhibit a "structural irony... which works against the authority of Matthew's statements", and she believes that Matthew "has rejected the very essence of nature—the eternal cycle of joy and vitality, the constant possibility of spontaneous delight in
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The thematic similarities between the "Lucy" and the "Matthew" poems are so strong that Alan Grob suggests that the two sets of poems should be put "under a single heading as the Goslar lyrics of 1799". The final poem, "Address to the
Scholars of the Village School of —" was written in 1800 in two
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Grob believes that the "Matthew" poems are important because they, with the "Lucy" poems, are different than the other poems that
Wordsworth wrote between 1797 and 1800 in their treatment of nature and personal loss. In their difference, they suggest "the presence of seeds of discontent even in a
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Geoffrey Hartman, "radical loss" haunts both the "Lucy" poems and the "Matthew" poems. The "Lucy" poems, written at the same time as "Two April Mornings", share their discussion on separation, but the "Matthew" poems make it clear that a loss
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Scholars of the Village School of —", which Grob describes as "one of the least familiar of the 'Matthew' poems", was originally a two-part poem with the second titled "Dirge". When it was published in 1842, Wordsworth added a third section, "By the Side of the
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the great lyrics written at Goslar, the 'Matthew' poems and the 'Lucy' poems, strongly indicate that even in the earliest phase, those years when Wordsworth spoke most confidently of the Utopian possibilities held out to man by nature, his optimism was tempered by at least momentary misgivings,
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affirmation in the poems. Matthew serves as a teacher about life and is viewed by the narrator as a source of wisdom. He is capable of rejoicing in nature, but he is also certain of the realities of nature, including death. He is able to mourn without despairing.
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age of 32. However, Moorman argues that the character is most likely based on a "Packman", or peddler that would visit Hawkshead to sell his wares. The "Packman" would sing and tell stories, and, with his traveling, resembled the Wanderer from
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cannot truly be replaced. The "Matthew" and "Lucy" poems, which express doubt about the ability of nature to comfort individuals experiencing loss, are thematically unique in Wordsworth's earlier poetry, according to Grob:
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period of seemingly assured faith that makes the sequence of developments in the history of Wordsworth's thought a more orderly, evolving pattern than the chronological leaps between stages would seem to imply".
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261:Which in those days I heard. (lines 29–32)
329:Brings not a moment's care. (lines 23–25)
299:and the narrator offers himself to his friend:
188:With points of morning dew. (lines 41–44)
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171:Full thirty years behind. (lines 23–24)
146:—Thou soul of God's best earthly mould!
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222:Of wilding in his hand. (lines 57–60
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753:. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
118:The sighs which Matthew heaved were sighs
816:. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
786:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
746:. Columbus: Ohio State University, 1973.
295:Am I enough beloved. (lines 53–56)
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124:The tears which came to Matthew's eyes
121:Of one tired out with fun and madness;
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95:Has travelled down to Matthew's name,
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343:Comes in the promise from the Cross,
286:My days, my Friend, are almost gone,
252:My eyes are dim with childish tears,
235:'Down to the vale this water steers;
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303:And, Matthew, for thy children dead
275:Mourns less for what age takes away
185:A blooming Girl, whose hair was wet
179:And, turning from her grave, I met,
106:Poor Matthew, all his frolics o'er,
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337:Such solace find we for our loss;
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1087:Ode: Intimations of Immortality
219:As at that moment, with a bough
135:It seemed as if he drank it up—
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149:Thou happy Soul! and can it be
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292:And many love me; but by none
109:Is silent as a standing pool;
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1052:I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
950:A slumber did my spirit seal
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1201:Dorothy Wordsworth (sister)
1094:Resolution and Independence
587:Knight 1896 pp. 86–87
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182:Beside the church-yard yew,
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758:Sensibility to Romanticism
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289:My life has been approved,
216:Methinks, I see him stand,
199:Which I could ill confine;
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282:Matthew points out that
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737:The Limits of Mortality
578:Abrams 2000 p. 256 note
314:Address to the Scholars
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63:and was separated from
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238:How merrily it goes!
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978:Michael, a Pastoral
749:Hartman, Geoffrey.
641:Hartman 1967 p. 289
614:Hartman 1967 p. 160
605:Hartman 1967 p. 285
560:Mahoney 1997 p. 109
551:Mahoney 1997 p. 108
537:Hartman 1967 p. 270
507:Moorman 1968 p. 429
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