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Compose a 2750 words essay on Wordsworth’s Ballad Expostulation and Reply. Needs to be plagiarism free!

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Words are crushed in poem. Sometimes they are mangled beyond any shape or form. However, the intention of the poet is to make expositions within the context of the poem. In “Expostulation and Reply” the lyrics are more or less decipherable if one knows the geography of the region where the poem is being written. The poem was written using the Esthwaite Lake in the Lake District of northwestern England as background. Simultaneously, there are also “books” and “Powers” to serve as backgrounds (Wordsworth, William. 1798)

Matthew goes a step further in his remonstration. He uses “grey stone” and “Mother Earth” to emphasize reason over idleness. He awakens the poet using the poet’s own language. The metamorphosis from the “old grey stone” to “Mother Earth” is accentuated using personal noun for “Mother Earth”. Matthew is an intelligent person capable of seeing the end from the beginning. By using “Mother Earth” he leaves no room for excuse for Wordsworth. His assertion “You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you. As if you were her first-born birth, And none had lived before you!” dooms Wordsworth and rationally Wordsworth has no choice but rise up and fulfill his “purpose” (Wordsworth, William. 1798)

Rational thinking is useful because it denotes responsibility and reason. Discoveries and inventions have taken place as a result of acute rational thinking. Philosophers and psychologists swear by rationalism because rationalism clearly distinguishes the real from the general. In the realm of language and literature, it is difficult to bank on any premise other than rationalism to express views and conclusions (Rimoldi, Eleanor. 2000).

However, there are exceptions to this rule. It is not possible to exclusively rule out exceptions after all facts are analyzed and exhausted. There is the margin of error and exceptions. Sir Isaac Newton remarked he was “only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me” (Mandelbrote, Scott. 2002, p9).

By the same argument, Wordsworth brought to bear “Powers which of themselves our minds impress, that we can feed this mind of ours in a wise passiveness” (Wordsworth, William. 1798).