 Hello Learners, I am Chanika Roy from Padmanath Gohai Borah School of Humanities, Krishnakanta Handik State University. This is the third part of the video lecture on the poem, Simon Lee by William Wordsworth. In the previous video, we have tried to analyze the theme of the poem and also we have laid emphasis on the summary of the poem. We have seen that the informity of old age is basically the main theme of the poem. We have learned that Simon Lee is an old Huntsman who lives in Carnegie and Shire, which is a county in Wales and although he was very proud of being a Huntsman in his earlier or in his youth but later in his old age there was a turn of his fortune and he was forced to live a life of poverty. Now in this video, we are going to see what kind of style or technique Wordsworth have used while writing the poem. So we shall try to look what kind of a language Wordsworth has used in this poem. The objectives of this video lecture are as follows. To study the language used by William Wordsworth in Simon Lee, to reflect on the poetic style of a William Wordsworth. You must have noted while reading the poem that Wordsworth has used very simple language while writing the poem. In fact, Wordsworth believed that poetry should be written in a language of the common people because such language is not artificial and is more at one with the environment. He believed that the purest poetry is written in the simplest language. Simon Lee, the poem we are now reading, is a good example of this belief. We have noted that this poem is written in a very simple language which all of us can understand. Since his language is devoid of any ornamentation, its effect depends solely on its strength of feeling and imagination. In the preface to the lyrical ballads, he asserts that there neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and verse. The poem Simon Lee is a simple poem and we can relate how spontaneously the poet has written his experiences or his encounter with the old huntsman. Wordsworth's absolute genius lies in his simplicity and he makes us contemplate the instinctive nature of the feeling of gratitude and also on man's general cold-heartedness. And this gives the poem its quite intensity as well as sensitivity. We have seen that Simon Lee is a ballad. That is, it is a poem which tells the story in a number of short regular stanzas. It will be interesting to know that Wordsworth never wrote down his immediate expressions as poems. Rather, he let them sing into his mind where these impressions and feelings remained till they became clear. The poet believed that if he wrote down his immediate feelings, he would not be able to do justice to his composition. The poem Simon Lee was inspired by his encounter with an old huntsman as mentioned earlier and he has noted down or he has written this poem later by recollecting the memories of his encounter with the huntsman. Wordsworth has very effectively juxtaposed the present and the past in the poem. You must have noticed that he describes firstly Simon Lee as he lives in Paneery in Cardigan Shire. Let me read out the lines from the poem. In the sweet shire of Cardigan, not far from Pleasant Iver Hall, an old man dwells a little man and he then takes us to the past where Simon Lee was portrayed as a strong and able huntsman whom no one could rival. The lines from the poem goes thus, He, all the country could outrun, could leave both man and horse behind. In the past and present are both important for the story. Apart from this, we can also see William Wordsworth's use of irony in the poem. Particularly, as Wordsworth says and mentioned earlier, Simon Lee never received his due for the services rendered during his youth. And the lines from the poem goes thus, One summer day I chanced to see this old man doing all he could to unearth the root of an old tree, a stump of rotten wood. So Wayne was his endeavour that at the root of the old tree he might have worked forever. So Wordsworth actually tries to show us that the old huntsman is as close to the earth as the stubborn tree root which he tries to uproot but in vain. So by reading this poem, we have gained an idea that Wordsworth, without trying to be didactic or being too suggestive, has given us a poem which is lengthy, of course, but at the same time full of feelings. The poem evokes deep thoughts in our minds and we are moved by the emotions which it gives rise in our hearts. We agree with the point when he says, I have heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds with cold rays still returning, alas the gratitude of man hath offner left me mourning. So we have noted that Wordsworth has used the simplest of language while writing this poem and the simplicity is the main attraction of the poem. He has narrated the story of an old huntsman in fragments and although the poem is a lengthy one, it is full of emotions and feelings. So I hope this video will be useful to you while reading the poem. You are requested to go through the text of the poem because it will definitely help you to get an in that knowledge about the writing style, about the use of language of William Wordsworth and this will also help you to appreciate the poem in a better way. With this we have come to the end of this video. Wish you a happy learning.