Talk:She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

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Since this poem is in the public domain, and only 3 stanzas of four lines, can we go ahead and just include it in the article? --JayHenry 04:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Was the reference to River Dove, Derbyshire inspired by any more than its rhyme with "love"? Does the last line invite the reader to contribute more emotion than is actually warranted in the line, raising issues of sentimentality? Is there in fact less here than meets the eye? There are several unexplored avenues, each worth a brief paragraph:
    • Hartley Coleridge's parody: how does well-aimed parody inform us about the features that characterize individual styles?
    • Cleanth Brooks' "formalist" analysis in "Irony as a Principle of Structure" (1949).
    • The first printing, which is in Lyrical Ballads needs more than just mentioning.
    • the multiple drafts might be mentioned
    • Wordsworth's "epitaphic" mode, as suggested in Jonathan Roberts, "Wordsworth, Epitaph and the Epitaphic", Literature Compass 1 (2003).

--Wetman 08:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for a framework for expansion. A trip to the library is called for. Ceoil 21:06, 12 October 2007 (UTC)