poem "Splendour in the Grass" by William Wordsworth

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The poem "Splendour in the Grass" by William Wordsworth is a reflective Romantic lyric that meditates on lost youth, the passage of time, and the consolations of memory and nature.

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instanceOf lyric poem
poem
author William Wordsworth
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
culturalImpact inspired later works using the phrase "splendour in the grass"
title phrase widely quoted in English literature
focusesOn contrast between youth and maturity
healing power of memory
healing power of nature
recollection of past happiness
form lyric
genre Romantic lyric
hasLine Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower
Strength in What Remains
surface form: Strength in what remains behind

Though nothing can bring back the hour
We will grieve not, rather find
hasMetricalFeatures regular meter with variations
hasRhyme end rhyme
influencedBy Romantic nature philosophy
Wordsworth's autobiographical reflection
language English
literaryDevice alliteration
enjambment
imagery
metaphor
personification
literaryMovement Romanticism
literaryPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romantic period
philosophicalAspect acceptance of impermanence
reconciliation with loss
subjectMatter aging
memory
nature
time
youth
theme acceptance of change
consolation in nature
lost youth
memory
nostalgia
passage of time
resilience of the human spirit
transience of joy
tone consolatory
elegiac
reflective

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Splendor in the Grass inspiredBy poem "Splendour in the Grass" by William Wordsworth