Carefully read the poem 'Simon Lee' by William Wordsworth (Romantic Writings:An anthology pp.60-63).Write an essay of not more than 1,500 words in which you analyse the poem and comment on the poetic form and language used (for example, rhyme, rhythm meta

... T M A 0 3 Question: Carefully read the poem Simon Lee by William Wordsworth (Romantic Writings: An Anthology pp.60-63). Write an essay of not more than 1,500 words in which you analyse the poem and comment on the poetic form and language used (for example, rhyme, rhythm metaphor, imagery, tone, word order, alliteration, point of view) and the way they contribute to the meaning and effects of the poem. Simon Lee the Old Huntsman is a poem which occurs in Lyrical Ballads and was written in 1798, belonging, thus, temporally to the Romantic period (1780-1830). Romantic writing is commonly identified with some key elements, which concern imagination, nature, symbolism and myth (although there have been writers of this period who were not as 'mainstream'). William Wordsworth has been characterised as a canonical author of Romantic Poetry in that his work is highly attached to the notion of Nature and

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