This assessment item will involve analysing a poem according to the principles and analytic approach.
Nuns fret not their convent’s room by William wordsworth.
in 300 words approx. answer The questions:
what is the poem saying?
how is the poem making its point an or statement?
in answering consider its use of rhyme and rhythm, figures such as metaphor or personification, consider also use of imagery in the writing. how does imagery aid the poet in making his statement and or point?
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive citadels ;
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells,
Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells:
In truth the prison, into which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me,
In sundry moods, ’twas pastime to be bound
Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be)
Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
Should find brief solace there, as I have found.