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A 6 page paper which examines the
theme of poverty in Wordsworth’s “The Old Cumberland Beggar” and Blake’s “Holy
Thursday” poems. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAblkewd.rtf
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through their work. One of the themes that they both expressed, and perhaps experienced as well, is poverty. In Wordsworths "The Old Cumberland Beggar" and Blakes "Holy Thursday" Poems are
works which present us with powerful illustrations of poverty. In the following paper we examine their works separately and then provide a discussion of how they describe poverty in different
ways, emphasizing different spiritual aspects of poverty. Wordsworth "The Old Cumberland Beggar" is a relatively long poem that provides us with the life and the solid existence of
one simple man, the beggar. We watch as Wordsworth offers us descriptions of the man as seen through the eyes of others, how others perceive this man, and how others
treat him. He is a relatively simple and humble man, a man of the earth. Wordsworth begins his poem with the following lines, setting the stage for our understanding of
this impoverished individual: "I saw an aged Beggar in my walk;/ And he was seated, by the highway side,/ On a low structure of rude masonry/ Built at the foot
of a huge hill, that they/ Who lead their horses down the steep rough road/ May thence remount at ease. The aged Man/ Had placed his staff across the broad
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fragments, one by one;/ And scanned
them with a fixed and serious look/ Of idle computation" (1-12). The picture we get of this man is incredibly simple. We can envision an impoverished individual today sitting on
a park bench and opening their bag of scraps, perhaps even sharing some scraps or crumbs with the birds. It is a calm picture, a picture without a great deal
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