William Wordsworth

of some of the other Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth appears to be truthful in his foreword when referring to the way he created the poem with 'great rapidity' shown by the wild train of thought the poem is expressed in.
             Nor, with their green and simple hue, disturb
             Once again I see these hedgerows – hardly hedgerows, little lines
             Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms
             The repetition of 'green' seems to demonstrate the method Wordsworth used in creation of the poem. The way, in which the poet corrects himself, also affirms this. In Coleridge's more conversational poem 'Frost at Midnight,' this also seems to be the case as the poet exclaims 'Tis calm in deed! – so calm that it disturbs...Sea, hill, and wood This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood With all the numberless goings-on of life
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