Write a paraphrase of the second stanza of Wordsworth’s “Lines” Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (p. 289). The stanza begins with the line, “These beauteous forms.”
When you paraphrase, your “translate” the poetic language into your own, commonplace, modern prose. You should come up with a block of prose that, when read aloud, are perfectly sensible to someone (your roommate for instance) without any great difficulty. This is NOT a summary. Leave nothing out. Speak in the first person the way the speaker in the poem does, and rewrite everything in the stanza.
Turn it in as a hard copy at the start of class.