Question no 1:

Identify and explain the connotative/figurative language used in

the following stanzas

Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;

Or surely, you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?

The sun above the mountain's head,

A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.

Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:

Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.

And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!

He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
 Answer
Willam Wordsworth has employed figurative language to generate imagery, or a vivid
perceived representation or experience. In the poem, the poet has use formal language. The
poem is difficult to comprehend due to the usage of unusual words and phrases such as lore,
come forth, hark, and blithe and within these, lies the figures of speech which make the poem
beautiful.
The poet has conveyed the significance of going out and living life wholeheartedly. The poet
specifically urges individuals to leave their books. Through this idea, the poet has presented a
connotation because by books he actually means their work and also their materialistic
desires) in order to experience life's pleasures.
Following are the figurative devices or in the other words, the usage of figurative language by
the poet to beautify the poem and to embellish the ideas presented in the poem:

 Metaphor: In the title of the poem, the poet has inserted a metaphor. Wordsworth
has demonstrated the metaphorical meaning of "turning tables" by picking that exact
title for the poem. Because this is the first phrase the reader sees when they first look
at the piece. This metaphor has a broad influence on the poem since it establishes an
early awareness of the poet's desire to modify the normalcy of things and to view
things in new ways.

 Personification is the process of ascribing human characteristics to a non-human

thing. The author employs personification in this poem on several occasions. For
example, "let nature be your teacher" and "above the mountains head.", He, too, is no
mean preacher. As it is clearly been seen that teacher or preacher are the words that
describes humans’ attribute or functions but the poet has used them to add up to the
beauty of the poem.

 Anaphora is the use of a word or phrase more than once at the start of each sentence
or stanza. The poet employs anaphora by saying UP! UP! in the first and third lines of
the opening stanza.

 Symbolism: Figurative language usage generally doesn’t include symbolism and

imagery, but by identifying them, it becomes easy to find the connotation and
figurative language. The books mentioned in the opening line and elsewhere in the
poem represent the limitations of the mandated human knowledge system. Books, as
 man-made objects meant to record and convey facts and ideas, naturally reflect
knowledge transfer from one person to another. The poet encourages their mate to put
down their books and gain knowledge by real experiences of nature.
 Alliteration is the presence of the same sound or word at the beginning of successive
words is known as alliteration. The poet has used alliteration in this poem in the lines
"Toil and Trouble."

 Onomatopoeia is a literary term that refers to the use of an object's sound in a literary
work. While reading the poetry, we may imagine the sound of birds. “And hark! how
blithe the throstle sings!

 Hyperbole is known as an exaggerated statement, or the qualities or things that are

overstated or amplified to show their intensity. For instance, the first line of the third
stanza ‘Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife.’ the strife is not actually endless or have
no literal sense of being endless but this use of hyperbole shows the severity.