{"id":102,"date":"2023-02-06T22:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/?p=102"},"modified":"2023-02-06T22:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:16:13","slug":"moving-in-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/2023\/02\/06\/moving-in-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving in Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Old Man Travelling\u201d embraces the themes of romantic poetry by emphasizing the idea of re-envisioning the concept of age and growing old and the sublime of this. This is similar to the way that the romantic movement focuses on the individual experience and compares it to nature and emphasizes the melancholy of the time. The enjambment of, \u201cA man who does not move with pain but moves | With thought. He is insensibly subdued\u201d (157), highlights the old man\u2019s separation from his body. Because the enjambment separates \u201cmoves\u201d and \u201cwith thought\u201d, this causes a dive into the meaning of “movement”. He is able to move \u201cwith thought\u201d as compared to \u201cpain\u201d, which could represent any kind of physical aging as a concept of pain. Instead, his ability to move \u201cwith thought\u201d tells the reader of this idea of mind over body and the old man was able to achieve this. The movement that the man experiences in his life is primarily the movement of his mind. This re-envisions the typical image of old men, who are usually burdened by constant pain. Instead, this old man moves completely separate from it. The line, \u201cHe is insensibly subdued\u201d following after \u201cwith thought\u201d emphasizes that his movement in thought also does not carry any mental pain or burdens. He is one with his mind and his journey \u201ctravelling\u201d. This brings me to my second point: even the title of the poem tells to the themes of it. The concept of an old man travelling is already seen as something out of the ordinary because old men would be seen as fragile and weak\u2013 in other words, incapable of \u201ctravelling\u201d very far physically. Throughout the poem, the readers are pointed to the potential that maybe the old man is travelling through his experience. Maybe the way that the old man experiences his day-to-day life is in similar manner to the way a person travelling experiences the journey. The line, \u201cTo peace so perfect that the young behold | With envy what the old man hardly feels\u201d (L 14-15), suggests that the old man is at a place in his mind\u2013 after a lifetime of age\u2013 where he travels through what is left of his life at peace. He does this in a way that feels enjoyable (or at least with content), similar to the joy of a journey as you travel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Old Man Travelling\u201d embraces the themes of romantic poetry by emphasizing the idea of re-envisioning the concept of age and growing old and the sublime of this. This is similar to the way that the romantic movement focuses on the individual experience and compares it to nature and emphasizes the melancholy of the time. … Continue reading Moving in Age<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}