He says "nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room: and hermits are contented with their cells; and students with their pensive citadels" (lines 1-3). ... These breaks allow one to find time to relax and rekindle their passion for what they have chosen to do. ... This is what Wordsworth is trying to convey. The "nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room" because being a nun is what gives them purpose and meaning, just as writing sonnets has given Wordsworth purpose and meaning. ... Although it may seem that the nun was forced into being a nun or the hermit w...

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Childhood experiences and influences are what helped shape my outlook on writing and creativity today. ... I remember being hesitant at first, as I wasn't sure what to write about. ... This led to my parents giving me the unfortunate, yet hilarious nickname of "The Hermit." ... On the first day of sixth grade, I was nervous but eager to see what was in store. ... I've been long acquainted with literature since I was small, it's what helped educate me and change my perspective on the world. ...

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"What each, what all supply, May court, may charm, our eye; Thou, only thou, canst raise the meeting soul!" ... The ode abounds in epithets: "numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong", "mountains wild", "loveliest child", "hermit heart", "decent maid", "chaste unboastful nymph", "thymy shore", "Cephisus deep", "wavy sweep", "warbled wanderings", "green retreat", "enameled side", "holy Freedom", "sister meek", "sober aid and native charms", "ordered hues", "distinguished throne", "altered land", "forceless numbers", "se...

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Who has never in their life sat and wondered on what to do or how to do it? ... For example, in stanza three, the narrator snaps for a moment and talks about becoming a hermit that revokes honeymoons, "O I"d live in Niagara forever" in a dark cave beneath the Falls I"d sit there the Mad Honeymooner devising ways to break marriages, a scourge of bigamy a saint of divorce" (Corso, 368). ...

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In discussing that famous elegy it is interesting to begin by asking what remains unsaid in the poem. ... The lilac bush, with its rich colors and scent, represents physical life, while the hermit thrush bodies forth spiritual life. ... In his view, death is always concerning love and nature; it is merely the body's death and what it causes is the immortality of spirit and the beginning of a new life. ... The boy was moved, The outsetting bard was thrown into raptures and, in a moment of inspiration, became aware of the mission for which he was born: "Now in a moment I know what I an fo...

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Though her life was outwardly uneventful, what went on inside her house behind closed doors is unbelievable. ... It wasn't because she was an invalid, rather, "Miss Dickinson became a hermit by deliberate and conscious choice" (Tate 83). ... Allen Tate writes, "if it were necessary to describe her seclusion with disappointment in love there would remain the problem between what her seclusion produced and how it was viewed" (Tate 83). ...

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