English Childhood Wordsworths Treatment of Childhood in the Light of English P
English Childhood Wordsworths Treatment of Childhood in the Light of English P
A Charles Adolph Charles Babenroth
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DRKX'S r. OOKS 257 tlcinaii to his Soqi on his Confining a Bird, the intention is to shame the child. The opening Hnes with their ad homi- ncm attack preclude from the start anything but a superior attitude of teaching: Horace, what greater punishment. Cou'd I inflict, my boy. On thee? And tell me what wou'd grieve thee more. Than thus to lose thy liberty? Yet thou can'st take a savage joy, To view thy captive's fond desires ; Thou can'st with unrelenting heart, Behold him beat against his wire...s. The boy is plainly lectured in place of being led to feel a community of interest. In The Domestic Loss: or tJie Death of a Dog there is profuse sentimental weeping wdiich is itself, however, some- what out of keeping with the bald moralizing and philo- sophizing that are stretched out to the length of twenty-five stanzas. The distinction between child reason and animal instinct makes the child talk priggishly in a self-congratu- latory vein that recalls Watts. If led by instinct's voice alone, That instinct gratitude could teach: Then blessed with reason to reflect.
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