ATAR Notes Text Guide: Selected Poems of William Wordsworth

Each ATAR Notes Text Guide features:

• A 'nutshell' summary that gives you a 1-2 page overview of the text's most important ideas!
• Background information covering the authorial context and setting
• Detailed analysis of the entire text, section-by-section, covering the most useful quotes and plot points!
• Character analysis, with dissections of character motivations and journeys, as well as the significance of each character in the text as a whole!
• A breakdown of the major themes and ideas in the text
• A comprehensive quote bank, arranged by key themes so you know what evidence to use for any essay!
• Highlighted vocabulary words for you to learn and integrate!
• One or more sample essays, with commentary from an A+ English student!
• Valuable advice from a high-scoring former student who shares tips and tricks for studying the text

The 'Poem-by-poem Analysis' section covers:

• To My Sister
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• Expostulation and Reply
• The Tables Turned: An Evening Scene on the Same Subject
• Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
• There Was a Boy
• The Lucy Poems
  • Strange fits of passion have I known
  • She dwelt among the untrodden ways
  • I travell'd among unknown men
  • Three years she grew in sun and shower
  • A slumber did my spirit seal
• My Heart Leaps Up (1802)
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1804)
• Resolution and Independence
• The world is too much with us; late and soon
• Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
• London 1802
• Written in London, September 1802
• The Small Celadine
• I wandered lonely as a cloud
• The Simplon Pass
• Stepping Westward
• The Solitary Reaper (1807)
• Surprised by joy – impatient as the wind
• Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
• The Prelude 1805 (Book 1, Lines 1–67, 271–441)