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Rewriting Wordsworth in Pursuit of Sanity in a Maddening Modern World.
https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com ^ | 4th April 2020 | Ozguy1945

Posted on 04/04/2020 12:34:43 PM PDT by Ozguy1945

William Wordsworth restored vitality to the stuffy English literature of his lifetime with fresh down to earth language.

In the current madness I have turned to Wordsworth this weekend to restore my faith in what is right about humanity.

I have found myself rewriting his classic lines written above Tintern Abbey to direct them more to God and a little less at The Self. (Correcting the mistakes of “the Poms” – a.k.a. the British - is a national pastime in Australia.”)

https://tujuhbelasan.com/2020/04/04/literary-tujuhbelasan-2-tintern-abbey-revisited/

What do Freeepers have to say about this?


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Poetry; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; coronavirus; faketitle; tinternabbey; whatisthisidonteven; wordsworth
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1 posted on 04/04/2020 12:34:43 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945
What do Freeepers have to say about this?

What's the matter smart*** you don't know any ****** Shakespeare?


2 posted on 04/04/2020 12:42:07 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Ozguy1945
..."“the Poms” – a.k.a. the British"

The Poms, eh? Sounds about right!

3 posted on 04/04/2020 12:51:03 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Ozguy1945

I have taught Tintern Abbey to my AP classes. I usually preface it with “I Wander’d Lonely as a Cloud”, as it presents a quicker take on Wordsworth’’s notions of the impact of nature on memory and its power to bring restoration and heightened understanding to the soul.


5 posted on 04/04/2020 12:51:46 PM PDT by MarDav
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To: humblegunner

You wrote:

“Second... what is the deal with posting only stuff you claim to have written yourself?”

Please substantiate this insinuation of plagiarism.


6 posted on 04/04/2020 1:02:28 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: MarDav

Wordsworth’s best poems could be considered foundational documents of our emotional culture. Do you agree?

Wonderful material for emerging adult minds.

But has this Canon been deconstucted out of the system more recently?


7 posted on 04/04/2020 1:06:17 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

Old, dead white guys BAD.


8 posted on 04/04/2020 1:10:46 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Ozguy1945
Please substantiate this insinuation of plagiarism.

You've spelled "self promotion" wrong, mate.

9 posted on 04/04/2020 1:12:00 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Jamestown1630

You are a courageous feminist Freeeper.

One of a kind?


10 posted on 04/04/2020 1:20:32 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: humblegunner

developing thoughts across platforms is another way of describing these ideas of min


11 posted on 04/04/2020 1:22:08 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

I am not a feminist. I am a woman who is sometimes sarcastic.


12 posted on 04/04/2020 1:22:13 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Ozguy1945
these ideas of min

Min was the little Chinee chick on the Barney show.


13 posted on 04/04/2020 1:30:27 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: EasySt

.....known for generations as “poms” or “pomies,”
a bit of history.....
P Prisoners
O Of
M Mother
E England


14 posted on 04/04/2020 1:53:40 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: humblegunner

developing thoughts across platforms is another way of describing these ideas of min


15 posted on 04/04/2020 2:02:24 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

Yeah, you mentioned that already, Min.


16 posted on 04/04/2020 2:03:18 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Jamestown1630

#metoo on the sarcasm not the gender

as to feminism ........ it does a great job of representing gay women in their need for barriers shutting out men ..... it doesnt represent most women ....... I was a midwife ..... a sad story ..... ?????? ......

here it is:

https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2020/02/10/mourning-my-midwifery/


17 posted on 04/04/2020 2:08:29 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: TokarevM57

Perpetrators Of Mass-scale Emasculation?


18 posted on 04/04/2020 2:10:45 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: TokarevM57

Perpetrators Of Mass-scale emaSculation?


19 posted on 04/04/2020 2:11:30 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Jamestown1630

....I still have my special Virginia “1607 - 2007” license
plate....even with the nut-cake Democrats who run the
Commonwealth right now, I still miss The Old Dominion...
I still argue with my Massachusetts relatives when they
try to tell me about their “first” Thanksgiving...
we had one in The Virginia Colony” in 1619....a couple
of years before the famous Plymouth Rock landing....
what most folks do not know is those folks were actually
heading for Virginia, bug ran out of food and beer so
had to settle for Plymouth.....


20 posted on 04/04/2020 2:17:28 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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