overhanging crags.

51-52. LIKE THE NOISE, etc. Is there a special appropriateness in the
use of a Scottish simile? What is the general character of the similes
throughout the poem?

56-77. Wordsworth never attributes to Michael the subtler and more
philosophical sensations which he himself derived from nature. Such
poems as _The Prelude_ or _The Excursion_ contain many elevated
passages on the influence of nature, which would have been exceedingly
inappropriate here.

115. Scan this line.

121. NOR CHEERFUL. The epithet seems not well chosen in view of the
fact that all the circumstances of their life breathe a spirit of quiet
cheerfulness. Surely the light (129-131) was a symbol of cheer.

126. PECULIAR WORK. Bring out the force of the epithet.

134. EASEDALE. Near Grasmere. DUNMAIL-RAISE. The pass leading from
Grasmere to Keswick. RAISE. A provincial word meaning "an ascent."

139. THE EVENING STAR. This name was actually given to a neighboring
house.

143-152. The love of Michael for Luke is inwrought with his love for
his home and for the land which surrounds it. These he desires at his
death to hand down unencumbered to his son. "I have attempted,"
Wordsworth wrote to Poole, "to give a picture of a man of strong mind