
Wordsworth Revisited: The Leech-Gatherer
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Introduction
The poem i want to talk about is called resolution and independence. It's one of wordsworth's encounter poems. He met the leech gatherer, which was the man who features in this poem. More of him later. I don't about you, man. Am i looking forward to this? Here goes. There was a roaring. This t the beginning of the poem. And then he wrote the poem in 18 o two. That was his word for it, is phrase for it. For him, a spot of time is something that happens that seems relatively non significant,. Then he goes away and chews it over and sort of places it in context. Think about it.
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