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    William Blake’s (1757-1827) "London" written in 1792 is a devastating portrait of a society in which all souls and bodies were trapped‚ exploited and infected.The poem is a devastating and concise political analysis‚ delivered with passionate anger‚ revealing the complex connections between patterns of ownership and the ruling ideology‚ the way all human relations are inescapably bound together within a single destructive society. William Wordsworth’s (1770-1850) sonnet "Composed upon Westminster

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    Discuss Wordsworth as a poet of Nature. Wordsworth’s attitude to Nature underwent a progressive evolution—from ‘the coarser pleasures’ of the boyish days to an unreflecting passion untouched by intellectual interests or association to the transitory stage of human heartedness accompanied by a lasting and more significant stage of spiritual and mystical interpretation of Nature. This last stage has been termed as Pantheism and Warwick James says‚ “At this stage the foundation of Wordsworth’s entire

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    In these lines Wordsworth writes about when he was younger and the memories he has which he can never replicate. He’s haunted by the beauty of the the rocks‚ the mountains and the woods. He thinks about the charms of the scenery‚ how it looks at the time‚ how it looked in the past and it’s gifts. He gains pleasure from the scenery and reminisces about how nature inspired him even in his younger days‚ how it what he was looking at would possibly inspire him in later days. Of the Romantic composers

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    “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey‚” by William Wordsworth‚ is a romantic poem that uses natural landscapes to induce an individual’s sublime emotional states. Sublime‚ according to Edmund Burke‚ is a profound emotional state experienced when someone is close to wild or dangerous events‚ but not directly in the path of danger. Carl Grosse‚ however‚ criticizes this definition and argues that danger only paralyzes the emotions and blocks sublime from emerging. By juxtaposing society with

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    otherwise be known as the Constitutional convention and would go on for the next five months. One of the fifty-five delegates was William L. Pierce. William L.Pierce was on the the four delegates from the states of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention. He was forty-seven years old when being invited into the Constitutional Convention and being a part of it. William L.Pierce was born in 1740‚ it is said that his exact date of birth is unknown because before becoming

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    began to look at a different approach to thought. The Romantic period‚ roughly between the years of 1785 to 1830‚ was a period when poets turned to nature‚ their individual emotions‚ and imagination to create their poetry. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ Shelley‚ and Keats rejected conventional literary forms‚ regular meters‚ and complex characters and experimented with emotion and nature subjects in their poems which marked a literary renaissance. Besides a response to the Enlightenment

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    The names Keats and Wordsworth are to a certain extent tantamount to Romanticism‚ especially from the perspective of modern academics. To many‚ Wordsworth and Coleridge are seen as the fathers of English Romanticism as they were the first to publish literary works that were seen as romantic with Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Yet although John Keats was only born in 1795‚ he still contributed much to the Romantic Movement and is in essence regarded just as highly as William Wordsworth. One can argue that

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    Comparison of Daffodils and The Prelude by Wordsworth To Ode to the West Wind by Shelly. ’Romanticism as a literary movement lasted from about 1789 to 1832 and marked a time when rigid ideas about the structure and purpose of society and the universe were breaking down. During this period‚ emphasis shifted to the importance of the individual’s experience in the world and his interpretation of that experience‚ rather than interpretations handed down by the church or tradition.

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    God‚ and through God‚ nature‚ because they have recently come from the arms of God. The speaker understands the importance of staying connected to one’s own childhood‚ stating: "I could wish my days to be / Bound each to each by natural piety." Wordsworth chooses the word "piety" to express the bond he wishes to attain (and maintain) with his childhood self‚ because it best emphasizes the importance of the

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    Wordsworth theory of language of poetry and Coleridge’s criticism on it‚ is of great significance in the history of literary criticism. Wordsworth revolts against the poetic diction of eighteenth century. His theory has some merits and at the same time has certain demerits. Rejection of Poetic Diction and Background of his theory Wordsworth rejects poetic diction by saying‚ “avoid poetic diction”. He says that neither there is nor could be any difference in the language of prose and that of metrical

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