...of the child or sage or Druid, which temporarily abashes the self-confident modern man: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually Wandering about alone and silently. It is because he could still write the Preface and a poem about a leechgatherer that Wordsworth went...

...country figures for us to remember in an attempt to define our contemporary poet's methods: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually Wandering about alone and silently. This very inclination of RS Thomas's toward mental fictions, such as is highlighted by comparison with...

...finds in the picturesque; see Liu: Wordsworth The Sense of History, especially p. 63. In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually." and this vision seems sent to give the poet "apt admonishment" (later revised to "strong admonishment"),...

...repeatedly illuminates: 'this fine poem is especially characteristic of the author,' says Coleridge. 'There is scarce a defect or excellence in his writings of which it would not present a specimen' (Biographia, II:116). The poem seems to have had an exemplary quality for Wordsworth too, since he...

...only enough to construct out of the Leech-Gatherer's tale a fleeting, tragic allegory: "In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace / About the weary moors...continually, / Wandering about alone and silently" (i35-37). It is only in the last verse that the speaker's understanding yields to the truth: that to...

...is "troubled" by his sense of "the lonely place, / The old Man's shape, and speech" ("In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace / About the weary moors...continually, Wandering about alone and silently"). We observed a similar strategy of delaying and intensifying in the speaker's recounting of the two...

...continues talking, the poet imagines him there eternally, part of that desolate scene: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently. (129-31) In the poet's mind, the old man is there forever as a sign of human "resolution" in the face...

...talking thus, the lonely place, 'I"he old Man's shape, and speech— all troubled me: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually. Wandering about alone and silently. While I these thoughts within myself pursued, He, having made a pause, the same discourse renewed....

...well as the response of poetic dreaming and wonder which returns again in Stanza xix: 'In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace / About the weary moors continually'. The 'apt admonishment' that Wordsworth receives from the leech-gather's 'so firm a mind' (xx) is at...

...own destiny: * More than a dozen years later, Coleridge would write in his Biographia Litcraria that 'this fine poem is especially characteristic of the...writings of which it would not present a specimen.' 349 But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him,...