Poems For People Who Hate Poetry

Send us a textOn this special episode I will read The Idiot Boy by William Wordsworth. This poem was published in the 1798 Lyrical Ballads and it was very controversial. Yet, it is a beautifully written poem. I spend the majority of the time simply reading the poem. I hope you enjoy the reading! At the end I give a small critique of Wordsworth's philosophy, but mostly I defend him and Romanticism from the cliche attacks toward Romanticism.THE IDIOT BOYBy William Wordsworth‘Tis eight o’clock, – a clear March night,The moon is up– the sky is blue,The owlet in the moonlight air,He shouts from nobody knows where ;He lengthens out his lonely shout,Halloo ! halloo ! a long halloo !–Why bustle thus about your door,What means this bustle, Betty Foy?Why are you in this mighty fret?And why on horseback have you setHim whom you love, your idiot boy?Beneath the moon that shines so bright,Till she is tired, let Betty FoyWith girt and stirrup fiddle-fiddle;But wherefore set upon a saddleHim whom she loves, her idiot b