Nature Trhough Romanticism and Victorian Period
COMPARATIVE OF WORDSWORTH AND TENNYSON: LIFE, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS AND WORKS.
NATURE TRHOUGH ROMANTICISM AND VICTORIAN PERIOD
In this paper, I’m going to compare the two great poets there is in each period that we have study: William Wordsworth as a Romantic poet and Lord Tennyson as a Victorian one. I’m going to compare their life, works and the political and social context in which they were involved because I want to demonstrate why they were the most important poets in their respective time.
William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland, it’s part of the scenic region in north-west England called “The Lake District”. (Victorian web) It is important because as a Romantic poet, the nature that was around him was the inspiration for lots of his poems, in other words, “the magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth’s imagination and gave him a love of nature” (Online-literature) One of his most important poems that show us the importance of nature in his own works is “Lines Composed a few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”(representative poetry online ) In the first twenty four lines we can appreciate the natural beauty and the description of the place. I would say this poem is one of the best that shows the nature as an important element, like a way of run away of the reality, one of the best poems that represents the naturalistic soul and the spirit of romanticism. But we see it deeply later. But not only the landscape surrounded Wordsworth had an influence in his works.
A very important person in his life was his sister. They were separated until their father’s death but in this moment they became totally inseparable. “Dorothy, his sister, became his companion, close friend, moral support, and housekeeper until her physical and mental decline in 1830’s” (Victorian web)
We can see her influence in Wordsworth poem “The Sparrow’s Nest”(Wordsworth.org)
In the second stanza, at the end when he says:
She gave me eyes,
NATURE TRHOUGH ROMANTICISM AND VICTORIAN PERIOD
In this paper, I’m going to compare the two great poets there is in each period that we have study: William Wordsworth as a Romantic poet and Lord Tennyson as a Victorian one. I’m going to compare their life, works and the political and social context in which they were involved because I want to demonstrate why they were the most important poets in their respective time.
William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland, it’s part of the scenic region in north-west England called “The Lake District”. (Victorian web) It is important because as a Romantic poet, the nature that was around him was the inspiration for lots of his poems, in other words, “the magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth’s imagination and gave him a love of nature” (Online-literature) One of his most important poems that show us the importance of nature in his own works is “Lines Composed a few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”(representative poetry online ) In the first twenty four lines we can appreciate the natural beauty and the description of the place. I would say this poem is one of the best that shows the nature as an important element, like a way of run away of the reality, one of the best poems that represents the naturalistic soul and the spirit of romanticism. But we see it deeply later. But not only the landscape surrounded Wordsworth had an influence in his works.
A very important person in his life was his sister. They were separated until their father’s death but in this moment they became totally inseparable. “Dorothy, his sister, became his companion, close friend, moral support, and housekeeper until her physical and mental decline in 1830’s” (Victorian web)
We can see her influence in Wordsworth poem “The Sparrow’s Nest”(Wordsworth.org)
In the second stanza, at the end when he says:
She gave me eyes,