A thought experiment about “intentionless meaning” in which the second verse of one of these poems is revealed in the sand by a receding wave appears in Knapp and Michaels's “Against Theory.” In another of these poems, the subject is promised “the silence and the calm / of mute insensate things” by Nature. In the earliest of these poems, the speaker climbs a hill to a cottage as the “evening moon” descends toward it. The image of “a violet by a (*) mossy stone / half hidden from the eye” opens the second stanza of one of these poems that concludes with the words “O / the difference to me!” In the last of them, the speaker notes “I had no human fears” at a time when “a slumber did my spirit seal.” “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” is among, for 10 points, what group of five poems about the death of an idealized girl, by William Wordsworth? ■END■
ANSWER: Lucy poems [prompt on answers like “the poems of William Wordsworth” before “earliest”]
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