Poetry and William Wordsworth

My speech

Good afternoon year 12 class. My name is Tendai Manara. Today l am going to discuss how William Wordsworth poems are still relevant to today‘s through his themes of return to nature and primitivism.William Wordsworth was known as one of the great poet that ever lived. He was a profound romantic poet of the late 17th century and early 18th century. Throughout his life he wrote numerous poems that captived and moved people of the late 17th and 18th century. Examples of his great work are the poems, “I wondered lonely as a cloud” and “Calm is all nature as a resting wheel”. Many of William Wordsworth‘s poems are related to the aspects of nature and how he was inspired by the beauty of the world. What made William Wordsworth remarkable was not his ability to bring the people of the 18th century together, in terms of English language but it was also being able to inspire the people of today’s society. Although several centuries have passed Wordsworth’s work is still relevant to today. Do you think about being amazed by nature? Poems such as “The stars are mansions built by nature’s hand,” by William Wordsworth bring to our attention how nature is beautiful.
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“The stars are mansions built by nature hand,” is a poem consists of four six-line stanzas in iambic tetrameter and an ABABCC ryyme scheme which was writtern in the 1820’s by the great William Wordsworth.

Throughout this poem it is designed to express the poet feelings towards the nature. William Wordsworth is surprised and awed by nature’s artistic creation and nature beauty. Nature In the romantic era was often presented as a work of art, constructed by a divine imagination in emblematic language.

A modern movie from a popular culture which is still relevant to today modern society is Avatar directed by James Cameron in 2009 .This movie is all about a beautiful blue planet Pandora inhabited by the Na’vi people known as the big blue things how they loved they are place and appreciate it. The love of nature in the movie is shown by connection fibers plants roots that each living creature is born on the planet. Trees, animals and even the the Na’vi have a neural connection allowing all living creatures to plug in to each other neural networks. So they can sense each other’s emotions and opinion.

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The another theme from romantic era is” The World is too much with us,’” is petrarchan sonnet which uses a subject of human immorality and then uses religion to invert that immorality and hide it composed in 1882 .This poem is describing how life has disconnected us from both the natural world and our innate spirituality and how we as people becoming greedy to nature not giving back. “The World is too much with us” first eight line stanza presents a theme of problems how we as humans are “getting and spending” (line 2) and “have given their hearts away” (line 4). They are not as close to nature as they should be. “A sordid boon”. A “boon” is a blessing. But, it is used as “sordid” . This word is negatively mean that the boon in not honorably right. Once we read this part of a poem it is clear all of these inhumane human acts are actually defied as “bad” because the are immoral. In line 8 the speaker says that “we are out of tune.” The last six lines stanza suggests a solution at develop the speaker to begin to conclude his thoughts. William Wordsworth is saying that he would be rather be happy and believing in something that is inconceivable than to be what humans have currently been believing in which is God (line 10) “A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn”. ln the last two lines of the poem Wordsworth bring up mythological figures whose actions appear to be better than human action “Proteus is rising from the sea” and Triton is sea god.” This makes a poem Christian sense. A primitivism popular culture example is a 1987 film Wall Street which grossed over 40 million dollars all over the world. This movie starts one of the best Hollywood actors Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas. Wall Street is about a character called Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas) who is a corporate raider for all intents and purposes; he buys up under performing companies, breaks them up and sells their parts at a good profit. What made this man relevant to today’s modern society is been greed, he owed company shares, but he wanted more. He wanted to control the all company, although his motives for doing so where hidden. He is also known for the speech he said to his company for saying greed is good. Just like Wordsworth say to us we are too greedy, the people of Zimbabwe are in the hands of a greedy person Mugabe. The people of this country could definitely relate to this poem by William Wordsworth.

Is this a good linking sentence Miss? As well as “The World is too much with us”, “I wandered as a cold” is also important in this speech about how things are relevant to today’s modern society. I wandered lonely as a cold is a lyric poem which contains 4 stanzas iambic tetrameter and an ABABCC rhyme scheme and each six line long stanzas written in the 1820’s by the great William Wordsworth. Throughout this famous poem, “I wandered lonely as a cold” if has two significant meaning. Firstly, it is like the most of Wordsworth’s poems, a poem of remembrance .Secondly, this poem describes the way which people are not truly alone if they are able to remember effectively. The word “lonely” is striking to us because it is accented. Similarly, the whole first line of the poem is very harsh sounding. The image of a “cloud” and the speaker’s choice of this particular object seem to point to an emphasis on separation. One of the most important things in this poem is that, with the proper “use” of memories, one will never feel alone, lonely. William Wordsworth uses his memory to remember dancing daffodils (flowers) when he feels alone (not loved). Their dancing personified them; they became more than just like people to him he starts feeling of joy. William Wordsworth is saying that a person cannot help but feel happy of joy. This shown by wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys, He encountered a field of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing, fluttering beside the flowers, the daffodils outbid the water in happiness way. A popular culture example is a nominated Grammy record of the year by popular group Black eye peas called I gotta felling. This song shows us how relevant feeling of joy is compared to today modern society. I gotta a feeling is a song that tells other people how happy you are, how exciting you been and how you are going to enjoy your day and feel good. The people of the 1820’s got amazed by William Wordsworth; as we today people get stunned by the Black Eye Peas songs of feeling of joy