.:|| The Table Turned ||:.

[Dreams]

The Table Turned
William Wordsworth


:1st stanza

Up! Up! My friend, and quit your books
Or surely you’ll grow double
Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks
Why all these this toil and trouble

a. It is completely against neoclassical. Because, according to the neoclassical poet, the only pleasure is reading book. They say that literature teaches us good and virtue, give examples of what hero did in his life and gives us models to follow. Meaning we are actually taught by books

b. here the poet says; leave your book and go to nature . You need your life. Don’t waste your time reading book. Nature will teach you whatever you want to learn, and books cannot teach you as much as nature.

c. If you read book you'll grow double, unhealthy fat .nothing will pleased you or even teach you. And when that happens; you wont have pleasure and will feel no beauty.
Receive real fact of truth poetry is your truth??!!

d. The poet here seem he orders us by telling us get a way (off) from books. He didn't try to invent him to go nature with him and have some lesson or pleasure. He insist on him, to be wise through going back to nature, and get friendship and literature from it.

e. When you go back to nature, you will not get boring. Every thing come to you spontaneously (take you by sudden)
You’ll find all the knowledge written in books spontaneously by sudden in nature, and you’ll never expect what to find or tell or ask yourself about what will happen. You will feel toward things through all your senses, and never forget what you’ve felt and learned.
You see rose to have an idea, these ideas come to you through feeling and emotion and senses.

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:2nd stanza

The sun above the mountain’s head,
A freshening luster mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.

Choose of words >> selective ..
Yellow,, mellow ,, luster [[ dark]]
It is kind of soft and sound feeling, very soft and tender.
(What does he mean by selective of words?)

a. Sun is giving you some kind of luster come to the world with shine light healthy and fresh. It is not kind of luster sparking which hurts us but mellow.

* The sun is covering the universe with shining brightness that is fresh and healthy. It’s not that it will hurt our eyes.

b. It is not spread when the field of green! We are in spring time or summer time in other word the best time of the year.

Not in the middle of the day but in the first sight of evening; when the light is soft and not dark yet. He actually tries to attract us (or ordering) to get a way from book.

:Choice of words
Mellow and yellow: use of the dark and unclear letter “L” gives a soft sound (like the sound of lullaby that puts a child to sleep).
The sensation we get from it is soft. There’s another “L” in luster. This is his selection of the language of the man.

* the 1st stanza is an order to get away from books, the 2nd stanza is about nature just before dark. There’s a contrast between these tow stanzas. We have the books that will give us trouble, fat age, unhealthy, unclear sight, and let you look free. A scientific fact is that people living in the desert, near the sea, or in green fields have better sight than city people, because many buildings give limited sight.

* look at the sun that will makes us worm. And makes us see the fields. He starts with the sun; “S” is a soft sound, and the “B” and the “K” are a closed (stop) sound. He gives the idea of softness through the play of sounds, and we don’t think about it but feel it.

* In mid-day we are busy and have no time for communication or stories, but now it’s the evening time. Wordsworth chooses the best time of the day and the year in his poem.

c. The word evening has its significant too, Evening not like the middle when the time of work but in the evening the time of relaxes, the time of sitting with family.

d.This word is well-chosen to show the best time of day and best time of the year

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:3rd stanza

Books! ’tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! On my life
There’s more wisdom in it.

* We have got something of nature at that time before evening. Some contrast between 1st and 2nd stanza.

Book: toil, trouble and unhealthy. Unclear sight looks, let your looks free to be clear (their sight is much scientific) .what books give you is trouble unclear sight and son. Whereas sun gives you something soft actually green field??!!>> don't know what he means in this word but he repeated once again.

+ Sun has got the sound “s” soft sound
+ Book has got the sound “b” close sound, close lips

He tries to show us the differences to give us the idea of softness (the play of sound).
Book >> again he says book ( he continuously tries to convince readers who are not yet convinced ).

* Books have no end, and there’s no ambition in reading again and again until you die.

a. It is dull because you can’t read unless you’re alone and no one should come to you, and you can’t enjoy the sound of birds or music. Something no end weak again till your death.

Dull>> you read law for example ……………….. no border allow !!!!

* Sweet: comes more than once, sweetness is insistences upon.

b. Try to listen to music or bird, try to live where green filed before you

*Linnet: is the name of the bird. come and hear the linnet, come and listen to the sweetness of his songs. I swear it’s better than anything found in books. Let nature be your teacher, instead of looking at books; you’ll find wisdom in whatever you see and hear.
c. Is also well –chosen not any words. It is quite soft sound

d. Wisdom, if you are looking for wisdom in book you will got nothing

e. Keep in your mind the word “sweet” because it is repeated through the poem

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:4th stanza

And hark! How blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let the nature be your teacher.

a. Pay attention to what I say. How beautifully and brightly it sings, and you’ll find something about the divine nature of the universe, and in the song you’ll find something religious. The bird will preach you and give you all the good values in religion.

b. Preachers: the one who gives you news whether good or bad. He will teach, give you the ideas of God, good values of religion.

c. Come forth to nature and leave your books. You will find in it what you looking for; there is much education, wisdom, knowledge, and learning in nature.

* He capitalizes the word nature and teacher. In philosophy the prime teacher is God, by his capitalizing, words worth substituted God to nature.

d. God doesn't speak directly but through nature, or through his messengers. Here the wisdom and words of god. And only through nature we see God’s wisdom.

e. This line, it is quite often refer to as the best line represents the idea of romantic, is sighted as one of the best lines in Romanticism about nature.

f. When he is speaking he is teaching, it is in fact, pleasure through teaching

:Here, there are the main differences between neoclassical and romantic
Why? This is not the same teaching. As in Neoclassicism; it’s only of pleasure. Learning doesn’t have to come through hard work, models and examples, it can be found in nature easily with pleasure.

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:5th stanza

She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless--
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
>Why should nature be your teacher?

Nature has whole world of worldly and rich different things, every thing enough to bless our heart and our mind. Every thing we need we will find it in nature.
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health

* This wisdom from nature comes to us with intention just by going outside. Nature will take care of our education, because everything that comes through pleasing, and will remain in out heart and mind, unlike books that gives trouble.

a. Nature teaches us and pleases as well. First of all, it educates us through pleasure

“wisdom breathed”
b. This sometimes the effect of French and Roman << LEAVING LIBRARY AND GOING OUT TO NATUR >> but the affect was very limited.

c. Have certain effect

d. It gained by health. In other word, give knowledge and mentally and physically health

* You’ll be healthier and get wisdom at the same time. You’ll benefit and prosper physically and mentally, and will know or find truth through pleasure.

Truth breathes by cheerfulness...
Truth means beauty...

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:6th stanza

One impulse from vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Or moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.

(Without thinking, ideas jump, tike the child back???)

* “impulse”: is related to spontaneous > “S”, action, to say what you want at once.

* One spontaneous action, voice, or sight from the woods will teach you more about the character of man. You don’t need to waste your time reading, because in seconds you’ll learn it from nature.

- Sages: French word means wise man. You’ll also lean good and bad morals with just an impulse from the woods.

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:7th stanza

Sweet is the lore which nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.

a. Sweet: it is repeated
Mis- shapes the beauteous form of things
Here, he means art. We corrupt nature by give thing another shape. Unnatural shape .is not beautiful as it was, function they say they should be selective or creative make thing not enough beauty more beautiful.

We murder to dissect
Here he means science, we murder animal to save expedition; In order to invent or make medicine to rescue ourselves from disease.

b. Enjambment: between last 2 previous lines and the last stanza

* Meaning; is a linked between two ideas or stanza, Lines in poetry; tow different section.

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:8th stanza

Enough of science and of art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

a. The meaning of the previous stanza is we need emphasis. He talks about science and art then he says enough talking about science and art because neither of them can help us understand nature. Since it is only nature give us knowledge and let's know our relation with god.

:b. Close up those barren leaves

Barren the opposite of (?), it means that it doesn’t give you more knowledge. He connects book pages to leaves, and chose the leaves to connect or establish a link between books and leaves.
Leaves don’t give any more knowledge.
Leaves is connected to the leaves of the book and the leaves of the tree.
Leaves 1- true (tree) 2- page of the paper

c. He means book but also he means the connected between natural leaves and unnatural leaves, Establishment of the connection.

d. Leave books and come to nature, and bring with you a heart that observes thing critically actively; observe nature and say how beautiful nature is. Look with intention some kind of observation to know one 'self to know the relationship between man and nature, and be open to receive that knowledge to know nature and learn from it. All you need for that is to have a heart that sees all these things and is ready to accept it.

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:Main theme

a. Nature
b. Let nature be your teacher
c. kind of imperative; an order done or given with intention
> It means that has intonation, give impression to you.
d. Teacher teaches you as the ideal of nature, prime mover or the creator. God for some philosophy is the prime mover who gives movement to thing. Try to take knowledge directly from nature; let it be your first and prime teacher.
e. And when the poet says let nature be your teacher he tries to be taught by god through nature and his creation.
Teacher: he capitalizes the letter “T” means to be nature the first teacher

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:The ideas in the tables turned

What table turned is about?

a. The ideas are against neoclassical who had the idea of learning from the old classic
Here the contrary idea nothing learns from book, everything from nature. Not from the corrupt of the society and what people made. But from nature is in fact the only and main thing to get wisdom from.

:in short
Wordsworth is against Neoclassicism, and learning from old literature and books of Romans and Greeks. The idea here is that you should learn not from corrupted humans and society, but from nature, as innocent as God created it, where real wisdom and knowledge is.

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:Form

The form is eight stanzas; four lines in each quatrains

:Rhythm

Tetra-meter:Four feet

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my note from Prof. Raddadi's lecture when i was at level six
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