English IV Unit 8 Wordsworth & Byron

Assignment/Lesson 8
Section 1, Question 6

“How does nature in Wordsworth's poetry differ from nature in Byron's description of the
Byronic hero?”

● Grab a sheet of paper & jot down some notes from this lesson on "nature in
Byron's description of the Byronic hero." Most of what you need is in the next to
last paragraph & maybe a little in the last. My notes were about 1/2 a page on
this part.

Byron loved nature & adventure and relied on…

The Byronic hero is so powerful that…
“Pleasantly… “
The last paragraph describes the Byronic hero, which you will need for
Question 15, so you may as well go ahead & jot those adjectives down.
Proud, willful, …

● THEN... Go back to Assignment/Lesson 4 (Wordsworth) on Wordsworth’s "...Tintern

Abbey." Jot down some notes about his view of nature; mine were a full page!
Questions 12-18 will also help there.

Deep seclusion, connect landscape & sky, green hue…

I, a worshipper of nature…
Lover of…
Questions 12-18 in this section lists “The three levels on which
Wordsworth perceived nature” & “The stages of development in man’s
relationship with nature.”
• physical…
• source of...
• type of ...

Section 2, Question 15

● Read back through the poem & the 5 paragraphs following it. Now, you can list
the traits they share. (Use the adjectives that you listed from above.)