Nature ’s Role in Wordsworth ’s Poetry by J.E. Remy In 1798‚ William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymously published a collection of poetry quite influential to development of the Romantic Movement in European poetry. The collection‚ Lyrical Ballads‚ with a Few Other Poems‚ had an advertisement suggesting the poems “be considered as experiments” determining “how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure”
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William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth - part of the scenic region in northwest England‚ the Lake District. Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School where his passion for poetry was recognized. After leaving Hawkshead‚ Wordsworth studied in Cambridge and at the end of his education he commenced a walking Tour of France‚ an experience that without doubt influenced his poetry. In 1793 are published his first two collections with poetry An Evening Walk and Descriptive
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untrodden ways – William Wordsworth A Minor Bird – Robert Frost War and violence Charge of the Light Brigade – Lord Tennyson Anthem for Doomed Youth – Wilfred Owen Where have all the flowers gone – Pete Seeger Anne Frank huis – Andrew Motion Life Leave Taking – Cecil Rajendra The Seven Ages of Man – William Shakespeare Paying Calls – Thomas Hardy Mid Term Break – Seamus Heaney Society Wedding Photographs – Jean Arasanayagam The Garden of Love – William Blake A Worker Reads
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"‚ William Wordsworth’s "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"‚ and Octavio Paz’s "The Street" share similar themes in that they all explore solitude and insightfulness. There is an interesting contrast within this group of poems‚ especially between the Frost and Wordsworth poems and Paz’s illustration. The first two poems are gentle and simple in their tone‚ whereas the last is quite solemn and worrisome. Frost and Wordsworth put positive connotations behind the themes
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of reflecting on oneself and achieving peace and serenity. We go through tough times in life‚ we face problems but we never let these obstacles pull us down. However‚ unlike William Wordsworth who mastered this technique‚ we have not because of our hectic lifestyle‚ we have no time for reflection or solitude. William Wordsworth however‚ showed that it is possible‚ through the beauty of nature‚ he reflects on himself in solitude and achieved serenity. Solitude and reflection can help us appreciate
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The poems “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and the “The Sick Rose” by William Blake have many similarities and differences. Both the poems use animals and bad weather in their content. “Fog” uses a cat and the fog while in the “The Sick Rose” there is a worm and a storm. The poets use the bad weather to create a sense of unhappiness to the reader as the bad weather stops normal events from happening. For example the fog blocks the sun and makes everything seem hazy and the storm destroys plants and does damage
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The Impact of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth‚ the age’s great Bard‚ had a significant impact on his contemporaries. Best known for his beautiful poems on nature‚ Wordsworth was a poet of reflection on things past. He realized however‚ that the memory of one’s earlier emotional experiences is not an infinite source of poetic material. As Wordsworth grew older‚ there was an overall decline in his prowess as a poet. Life’s inevitable change‚ with one’s changes in monetary and social status‚
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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. He believed that
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William Wordsworth: Michael IF from the public way you turn your steps Up the tumultuous brook of Greenhead Ghyll‚ You will suppose that with an upright path Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent The pastoral mountains front you‚ face to face. But‚ courage! for around that boisterous brook The mountains have all opened out themselves‚ And made a hidden valley of their own. No habitation can be seen; but they Who journey thither find themselves alone With a few sheep‚ with
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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 is not fulfilled-
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