IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST MERCIFUL, THE MOST

BENEFICIENT
TO:

IMRAN BUKHARI

ROLL NUMBER:

ENGL51BF20RO40

ASSIGNMENT TOPIC:

WORDSWORTH VIEWS AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN HIS POEM “THE

TABLES TURNED”

THALL UNIVERSITY BHAKKAR

About the poem:
This poem deals with the dullness of the human knowledge and the lofty position of the nature.
The only way by which we conceive the truth and wisdom is by Mother Nature. A person can
study but real education can be learned by teacher nature. Human spends too much time on
learning how things work rather than appreciating the beauty of nature. To really gain wisdom,
we must humbly open their hearts to nature.

The speaker urges a friend to put down all the books he is reading and watch the sun set. By
gaining intellectuality, a man must focus the nature for that purpose. No matter how hard, how
people study, the understanding will be incomplete. Nature meanwhile, fills people with delight
and gives them wisdom. Nature is not just lonely but rather it is best way of learning. Nature is
lit with wisdom, health, bless and understanding.

Wordsworth’s views about poetry and critical analysis of “The Tables Turned”

He believes in the simplicity of the poetic language:

The poetic language must be simple so that an ordinary man can read and understand. By
observing the language of the poem, we will come to know that this poem is very simple and
even an ordinary man can easily understand and fully evaluate this poem.

Poetic devices must not be used in frequent way:

But his poem is carrying some devices in it like the repetition of “t” in the first stanza shows the
negativity of the bookish knowledge. He also used metaphors and personification like “she”
referring to the nature. Nature is taken as living entity in this poem. But in his another poem “the
mad mother” there are not poetic devices in this poem.

Presents nature and rustic life:

This poem is focusing on the life of a countryman and his observations of a rustic life. The
speaker invites his acquaintance to love nature and leave his books as they are dull and boring.
On the flip side, nature is full of wisdom and intellect and also the observation of how life
sparkles from the buds.

The sun above mountains head,

A freshening lecture mellow

Through all the long green fields has spread

His first sweet evening yellow

Poetry must be expounding the truth and must be in real language by real man:

In this poem, the speaker is an ordinary man and he emphasizing the truth of the nature and also
inviting his fellow to observe. The poem is in real language but according to S.T. Coleridge,
there must be some poetic artistic techniques to make the poem more tolerable and more
charming.

Up up! My friend, and quit your books,

Or surely you will grow double:

There is also use of meter in it to make the building of the poem more charming and more
glorifying.

Nature preaches wisdom:

Books ties a dull and endless stifle

Come hear the woodland linnet

How sweet his music on my life

There is more wisdom in it

Nature purifies morals:

As nature is the teacher and most virtual and propagates the truth so it is used to purify morals.

Of moral evil and of good,

Then all these sages can.

Nature is dominant over all the fields of knowledge:

Wordsworth is the poet who more focuses on the dominancy of the nature over all the fields of
knowledge. He focuses on the direct observation of the process of life and the process
explained in books.

Enough of the science and of the arts’

Close up those barren leaves;

Come forth, and bring with you a heart