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THE FATHER OF THE MOVEMENT

THE FATHER OF THE MOVEMENT. WILLIAM WRDSWORTH 1770-1850. HOTLINK. Wordsworth’s nature poetry is infused with nostalgia for a simple rustic world that he imagines to be disappearing.

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THE FATHER OF THE MOVEMENT

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  1. THE FATHER OF THE MOVEMENT WILLIAM WRDSWORTH 1770-1850

  2. HOTLINK • Wordsworth’s nature poetry is infused with nostalgia for a simple rustic world that he imagines to be disappearing. • This world he perceives to be “truer” reality than that of industrial society. But we are left with the feeling that it is only the fact that the world Wordsworth evokes is “lost” that makes it more meaningful to him.

  3. Talking Heads • The versatile artist David Byrne, leader of the American group Talking Heads inverts Wordsworth’s perspective, imagining a very different nostalgia. • In “Nothing but Flowers” it is not the unspoiled nature, but the splendours of the post-industrial society which are evoked on the group’s album Naked(1988)

  4. Like Adam and Eve • The song presents us with two characters who find themselves in paradise “like Adam and Eve” in Eden , surrounded by waterfalls and flowers. However, we soon realisethat this return to nature is the results of the decline and collapse of industrial civilisation.

  5. Lost in nature • The couple faced with the monotonous abundance of nature begin to miss their beloved motorways, billboards, Pizza Hut, in short all the commodities and conveniences of contemporary America.

  6. The scripts • Here we standLike an Adam and an EveWaterfallsThe Garden of EdenTwo fools in loveSo beautiful and strongThe birds in the treesAre smiling upon themFrom the age of the dinosaursCars have run on gasolineWhere, where have they gone?Now, it's nothing but flowers

  7. There was a factoryNow there are mountains and riversyou got it, you got itWe caught a rattlesnakeNow we got something for dinnerwe got it, we got itThere was a shopping mallNow it's all covered with flowersyou've got it, you've got it

  8. If this is paradiseI wish I had a lawnmoweryou've got it, you've got itYears agoI was an angry young manI'd pretendThat I was a billboardStanding tallBy the side of the roadI fell in loveWith a beautiful highwayThis used to be real estateNow it's only fields and trees

  9. Where, where is the townNow, it's nothing but flowersThe highways and carsWere sacrificed for agricultureI thought that we'd start overBut I guess I was wrongOnce there were parking lotsNow it's a peaceful oasisyou got it, you got itThis was a Pizza HutNow it's all covered with daisiesyou got it, you got it

  10. I miss the honky tonks,Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevensyou got it, you got itAnd as things fell apartNobody paid much attentionyou got it, you got itI dream of cherry pies,Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookiesyou got it, you got it

  11. We used to microwaveNow we just eat nuts and berriesyou got it, you got itThis was a discount store,Now it's turned into a cornfieldyou got it, you got itDon't leave me stranded hereI can't get used to this lifestyle

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