What kind of poet was Wordsworth? Write about his life and his place in Romantic poetry. Explicate (explain) one of his poems‚ or compare and contrast a few of his poems. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH‚ who was considered as the one the nest romantic poet in his era‚ was born in 1770‚ at Cockermouth‚ on the Derwent‚ located in Cumberland. His family history is very much similar to the Scott’s; as like Scott he was also the son of an attorney‚ law-agent to the earl of Lonsdale‚ a prosperous man in his profession
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journeys in nature‚ whereas Wordsworth describes his emotions by comparing them to nature. The two authors have expressed their relationships with nature by vividly describing their emotions and their environment giving the reader the ability to envision the text. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a very descriptive poem about nature and how it connects to his feelings‚ which allows the readers to imagine what he is feeling through nature. In “I Wandered Lonely as a cloud Wordsworth states directly
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stanza has got eleven lines. Obviously‚ there is a change of pattern which makes this odes even more interesting. The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is: ABABCDEDCCE while the rhyme scheme of the last two stanzas is: ABABCDECDDE. As one can see‚ Keats creates the first four lines of each stanza equally. After that‚ he changes the scheme. Furthermore in line 15‚ third stanza‚ the word “wind” has to be pronounced differently so that it rhymes with the word “find” two lines earlier. All these little
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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN KEATS Born in London‚ England‚ on October 31‚ 1795‚ John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery‚ great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion on that trip brought on the first symptoms of the tuberculosis‚ which ended his life. Quotes "If Poetry comes not as naturally as Leaves to a tree it had better not
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Romanticism: Blake and Keats Blake and Keats were renowned poet during the period where Romanticism played an essential part in creative art and works. Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Poets like Blake and Keats writings were influenced by the fundamentals of nature‚ human emotions‚ feelings‚ imagination‚ instinct and intuition‚ reflection
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William Wordsworth: A Romantic Hypocrite Wordsworth in his “Prelude” has presented a timeless piece of art‚ transfixed for eternities to come. He has made his words immortal by his imagination that gives the truth‚ which according to Keats is beauty. He equates beauty and truth through his imagination. This ode is a purely aesthetic rendition to signify the supremacy and impermanence of art over nature. Through his imagination‚ he not only enlivens the urn but makes it immortal through his
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Ode to John Keats At an early age‚ John Keats experienced a tough life that was surrounded by death. Not only did he lose his mother‚ father‚ and half of his siblings when he was young‚ but he was exposed to death and illness when he was a teenager working as an apprentice surgeon. He soon became a Romantic poet with an obsession with death‚ which can be seen in his poems throughout his life‚ particularly in his famous “Great Odes”. Between the spring and autumn of 1819‚ Keats wrote six odes
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theme of finding oneself in nature‚ symbolism finding hope in nature‚ imagery is emphasized through the indication that it is easier to connect with nature as a child and concerns towards the writers are accentuate through the theme of drifting away from nature. These themes help the writers highlight their techniques to the readers. Although both writers share the same views on nature‚ their context allows them to differ greatly from one another. Both Malouf and Wordsworth write through certain characters
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conclusion‚ William Wordsworth cleanly describes the act of watching a patch of country daffodils swaying in the breeze and the lasting effect this pleasant image has on his quiet moments of reverie thereafter. But‚ perhaps in this simple four stanza poem‚ William Wordsworth has‚ in writing “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”‚ succeeded in creating one of his greatest works of Romantic poetry by so perfectly actualizing the emotional virtue of Romantic poetry itself. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was
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draft The Life of William WordsWorth William Wordsworth is considered one of the greatest poets during the English Romantic Period. He is also considered‚ only next to Shakespeare‚ one of the greatest sonneteers. There are some historians that even believe that William Wordsworth‚ along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ helped launch the Romantic Period. This statement has been debated between historians‚ but one thing that they do agree on is‚ William Wordsworth shaped the literary era. The
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