Folklore
Name: K.Sriharideep
Shiv Nadar University - Dadri
Monsoon 2014
ENG397 - Assignment 2
Marks: 25
Submit Answers by: Oct 22, 2014.
Instructions:
1. Adhere to the word-limits indicated.
2. Do not plagiarize. Use quotation marks to indicate language that is not your own.
Copying passages from others or from the internet will result in a zero score for the entire paper.
Questions:
1. Wordsworth says: “to produce or enlarge this capability is one of the best services in which, at any period, a writer can be engaged; but this service, excellent at all times, is especially so at the present day.”
What “capability” is Wordsworth talking about, and in what ways is the poet equipped to
“produce or enlarge” it? Also, what is special about “the present day” that provokes
Wordsworth to say this at the end of the eighteenth century?
(10 marks, 500 words)
Wordsworth poems are composed with series of incidents and situations from the day to day life with the language familiar to everyone.He believes that the usage of complicated and physiological languages which is done by many poets is perplexing when compared to the simple language that is characterised by regularity and easiness in understanding.He thinks that there is no purpose to the poetry if a poet adopts this methodology.It is always good to convey the feelings of a poet in simple and subtle language so that they can have a mass reach.So here Wordsworth is talking about the ability to express the feelings of a poet in a language which majority of the people can understand with ease.More than the poetry style
Wordsworth is very keen about expressing it in a form which has got a simple and adoptable language which is used by most of the people.He further adds that “The Present day” poetic practices are no more influenced heavily by the complicated,fancy and heavy poetic forms unlike the earlier Neoclassical era which now come to an end.
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Name: K.Sriharideep
2.
Shiv Nadar University - Dadri
Monsoon 2014
ENG397 - Assignment 2
Marks: 25
Submit Answers by: Oct 22, 2014.
Instructions:
1. Adhere to the word-limits indicated.
2. Do not plagiarize. Use quotation marks to indicate language that is not your own.
Copying passages from others or from the internet will result in a zero score for the entire paper.
Questions:
1. Wordsworth says: “to produce or enlarge this capability is one of the best services in which, at any period, a writer can be engaged; but this service, excellent at all times, is especially so at the present day.”
What “capability” is Wordsworth talking about, and in what ways is the poet equipped to
“produce or enlarge” it? Also, what is special about “the present day” that provokes
Wordsworth to say this at the end of the eighteenth century?
(10 marks, 500 words)
Wordsworth poems are composed with series of incidents and situations from the day to day life with the language familiar to everyone.He believes that the usage of complicated and physiological languages which is done by many poets is perplexing when compared to the simple language that is characterised by regularity and easiness in understanding.He thinks that there is no purpose to the poetry if a poet adopts this methodology.It is always good to convey the feelings of a poet in simple and subtle language so that they can have a mass reach.So here Wordsworth is talking about the ability to express the feelings of a poet in a language which majority of the people can understand with ease.More than the poetry style
Wordsworth is very keen about expressing it in a form which has got a simple and adoptable language which is used by most of the people.He further adds that “The Present day” poetic practices are no more influenced heavily by the complicated,fancy and heavy poetic forms unlike the earlier Neoclassical era which now come to an end.
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Name: K.Sriharideep
2.