The Effulgence Within: The Thorn that stuck in Martha Ray forever

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

The Thorn that stuck in Martha Ray forever

The subject of Wordsworth’s poem “The Thorn”, which occurs in Lyrical Ballads (1800), is Martha Ray, and her misery. It marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in English literature. The natural setting is the thorn, an old, grey, forlorn thing: only yards from it is a small pond of muddy water... Sign in to see full entry.

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