
Wordsworth Revisited: The Leech-Gatherer
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Speaker of the Poem
The poem is about a block inin nature, instead of it being you as an individual experiencing it and then expressing that experience. And just because wordsworth met a leech gatherer, that doesn't make wordsworth the speaker of the poem. I thought of chatterton, the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that perished in his pride. Chatterton was a atenager who wrote brilliant poetry, but claimed it discovered adnd it was, i think, m evil or something of that nature. He was kind of exposed as a fraud. So even if it's not wordsworth, the character is created to tell this story, is a poet, and we
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