Essay #1: A Close Reading of William Wordsworth´s “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” The poem‚ a Petricharan sonnet‚ “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” by William Wordsworth describes the view from Westminster Bridge in an early morning sunlight and represents the image even more the beauty of London city in a very positive and peaceful way. The speaker achieves to produce an image in the reader´s mind that is so clear‚ that the reader is able to picture himself
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at Cockermouth in the heart of the Lakes District in England. William Wordsworth grew up in a rustic society and his beautiful and ageless poetry often reflect this. Wordsworth’s mother died in 1778 and in 1779 he was sent to grammar school in Hawkshead. Wordsworth’s father died in 1783‚ leaving his uncles as guardians. They tried to guide him towards a career in law or in the church and he was accepted into Cambridge in 1787. Wordsworth was uninspired to work towards a career he had little interest
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just holding all of the feelings inside. The fact of the matter is that dejection is a mysterious thing and everyone has varying perspectives of it. In Romanticism‚ dejection is a topic that is considered very deeply‚ especially by the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Although their views are sometimes dramatically different‚ each poet has very intriguing thoughts on the matter of dejection and has different views on dealing with it. While it is to Wordsworth’s belief that depression
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and analyzing their two poems‚ I will try to define Wordsworth and Emerson¡¯s respective conception of nature. The reason why they formed such conceptions of nature is‚ to the former‚ lies in his passiveness; and to the latter‚ in German philosophy and bold individualism. Key Words: conception of nature£»NATURE£»philosophical conception of nature£»common conception of nature£»passiveness£»individualism Outline I. Introduction II. Wordsworth¡¯s conception of nature III. Emerson¡¯s double conceptions
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Nature is the universe‚ with all its phenomena‚ the elements of the natural world. In society there are those individuals that have an intense connection with nature. William Wordsworth‚ a romanticist‚ pantheist and transcendentalist believed that the natural world was an emblem of god or the divine and his poetry often celebrates the beauty and spiritual values of the natural world. Chris McCandless believed that nature was the essence of freedom. The module "In the Wild" deals with humanity’s relationship
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A giant field of daffodils or a single Calypso borealis in a murky swamp‚ both equally beautiful but vastly different. John Muir and William Wordsworth have two very different way of describing things that are very similar to each other. Both are capable of portraying beautiful stories but in two completely opposite ways. Wordsworth uses intriguing syntax to portray his story while Muir uses profound connotation and diction. John Muir uses lots of profound connotation and diction to portray his connection
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save this values and protect them from the vital concerns that Milton gave it before he died‚ those poets like Shelly‚ Wordsworth and other poets wrote according to them direction on the exploration of one’s identity and the declaration of political democracy‚ Shelley’s wrote the sonnets ’England in 1819’ and ’Ozymandias’ against the political despotism and dictatorships‚ Wordsworth also wrote his famous sonnet " ’London 1802’ which considered a first class nostalgic sonnet." The word " ’nostalgia’(1)
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7) In G. J. Finch’s (n.d) "Wordsworth‚ Keats and language of sense" he decodes the role played by the ’senses’ on their poetry. In the first half he discusses Wordsworth’s utilization of sight and hearing. The latter was of the opinion that ’senses...are interpreters of private language we share with Nature’. Furthermore Finch claims that the poet attempted to "seek meaning" via the "world of sight" as for him Nature offered pearls of wisdom that could be found by those that looked for it. This perspective
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Through many of his poems‚ William Carlos Williams presents the reality of poverty among a great portion of the American society. Within Williams’ work of Selected Poems‚ he not only reveals the trapped lifestyle of those living in poverty‚ but he also represents the horror of the war between social classes along with the coinciding war on the poor. Williams’ use of plutonic images among these poems provides powerful meaning to his argument of American societal values‚ claiming the men of America
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“Report to Wordsworth” and “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” Both poets of “ Report to Wordsworth” and “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” depict nature in their poems in different ways as well as similar ways with the usage of imagery‚ figurative devices and through the structure. Vachel Lindsay talks about the approaching of modernization and its wreckage to the natural environment‚ including the buffaloes. Boey Kim Cheng is informing about the disintegration of nature by man to ‘Wordsworth‚’ who is the
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