Strange fits of passion have I known Analysis

"Strange fits of passion" was published in 1802, in the second edition of Wordsworth's groundbreaking book Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth co-wrote it with his best buddy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and...

Our speaker is a man in love. Okay, to be more precise, we're really just assuming that our speaker is a man. We really don't get any evidence to the contrary, and we do get a love interest named "...

For this poem, we find ourselves out in the country. We have orchards, cottages, and horseback riding—you name it. Such a setting is not really surprising for a Wordsworth piece, actually. One of...

There's a reason they call it the L-word. At least, that seems to be the driving notion behind Wordsworth's use of sound in "Strange fits of passion." L-words, and L-sounds in general, seem to be s...

Like a lot of poems, this one shares its title with the very first line. At first, you might just say that was some lazy title-making on Wordsworth's part. He puts all this effort into seven stanza...

Poetically speaking, William Wordsworth was a straight shooter. In his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," in fact, he states "the principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents...

The biggest challenge of this poem is some of the archaic language that it uses. That will happen when there's more than two hundred years between you and the poet. Don't take it personally, though...

In 1797, William and his sister Dorothy moved to a village in the Lake Country in England in order to be closer to William's buddy Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Wordsworths had the odd habit of walk...

Our speaker is off to visit his beloved Lucy, but we never actually see the two meet. Rather than a sexy rendezvous, we get a panic attack. So, a G-rating it is.