I’d like to analyze a poem that was written by a famous English poet William Wordsworth “Daffodils”. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was a Romantic poet and a major influence in bringing about the 18th centuries’ Romantic Age of Literature. An original poet for many different artistic qualities‚ his personality and emotional intelligence had made him the perfect forefather for a literary movement that would resound philosophically and poetically to this day. Romanticism‚ defined by it predisposition
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Biography of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who‚ with Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. He is the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson‚ William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth‚ Cumberland[1]—part of the scenic region in northwest England‚ the Lake District
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William Wordsworth’s poetry embodies the spiritual focus of romantics and their refusal to conform to the literary traditions of the age of reason. The modern “rational” world which Wordsworth came from was becoming increasingly polluted and destructive. It prohibited the imaginative escape of authors and so people like Wordsworth found solace and escape in what was left of nature and their own imaginative poems. Poems like “Strange Fits of Passion have I Known” and “the Solitary reaper” illustrate
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Blake and Wordsworth William Blake and William Wordsworth were two of the most influential of all of the romantic writers‚ although neither was fully appreciated until years after his death. They grew up with very different lifestyles which greatly affected the way they as individuals viewed the world and wrote about it. Both play an important role in Literature today. Despite their differences‚ with their literature backgrounds they cannot help but have a few similarities. William Wordsworth
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Discuss Wordsworth as a poet of Nature. Wordsworth’s attitude to Nature underwent a progressive evolution—from ‘the coarser pleasures’ of the boyish days to an unreflecting passion untouched by intellectual interests or association to the transitory stage of human heartedness accompanied by a lasting and more significant stage of spiritual and mystical interpretation of Nature. This last stage has been termed as Pantheism and Warwick James says‚ “At this stage the foundation of Wordsworth’s entire
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included the years 1798-1832‚ was an era revolting against the 18th century literary style. The time period was filled with poets who dramatically poured their beliefs into their writings and poetry such as William Wordsworth‚ a very notable Romantic poet during this time period. In stark contrast‚ the Victorian Period was a time during which poets wrote about the environment that surrounded them‚ and tended to have a pessimistic view of life. Matthew Arnold‚ a Victorian poet‚ encompassed many of
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The names Keats and Wordsworth are to a certain extent tantamount to Romanticism‚ especially from the perspective of modern academics. To many‚ Wordsworth and Coleridge are seen as the fathers of English Romanticism as they were the first to publish literary works that were seen as romantic with Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Yet although John Keats was only born in 1795‚ he still contributed much to the Romantic Movement and is in essence regarded just as highly as William Wordsworth. One can argue that
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Imagery-poem assessment Emilee goodman p.2 ( I wondered lonely as a cloud) William wordsworth In the poem I “Wondered lonely as a cloud” the narrator describes his beautiful “float” over fields of “dancing” daffodils. I chose this poem because I love Williams word choice‚ he could’ve used simple mediocre words like yellow instead of “golden” the very word golden refers to light dancing off of it‚ shining‚ glimmering. I also love the how he refers to their continuous existence being
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involvement with an enthusiasm of nature. The role of nature is prominent in Romantic poetry; it is also the primary concern for a worshipper of nature-William Wordsworth. This concern is to appreciate the sublime beauty of nature as living personality‚ to search for the union between the mind and nature‚ and to acquire aspiring insights by embracing nature. In almost of his poems‚ Wordsworth described the pure beauty of nature through his gentle words and also conceived that nature as living personality.
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The fact that the word ’I’ and no other pronouns apart from ’they’ to describe the daffodils is used in the poem suggests that the first person is on their own- there is no-one else with them. Just this simple pronoun announces the theme of loneliness in William Wordsworth’s poem. The very first sentence also introduces the theme of loneliness: ’I wandered lonely as a cloud.’ Here this simile reminds us of how empty a sky is‚ and therefore how empty the person is. There is a part of them that
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