SEMANTIC FIELDS OF THE FOLLOWING POEMS

 

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

 

·         MATHS: columns, add, divide

·         GEOMETRY: diagrams, proofs, figures, measure

·         ASTRONOMY: astronomer, night-air, stars

·         SOUND: heard, applause, mystical, silence, (rising-gliding)

 

 

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy tone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

 

·         FEELINGS: none to praise, few to love, unknown, ceased, difference to me

·         NATURE: springs, violet, star, shining, sky, mossy stone

·         LONELINESS: untrodden, none, few, mosty, hidden, one, unknown, grave