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Unread 07-26-2001, 10:19 AM
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The only turn I detect in Wordsworth's sonnet comes with "Never," which raises the poem to a slightly higher pitch of excitement. The real turn in the poem is its situational irony: Wordsworth is praising Nature while describing an urban setting.
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