William Wordsworth secured the reputation of being one of the great Romantic poets. His verse celebrates the moral influence exerted by nature on human thought and feeling. Considered one of England’s greatest poets‚ John Keats was a key element in the Romantic Movement ‚ know especially for his love of nature ‚ his poetry also resonated with deep philosophic questions. Wordsworth has secured the reputation of being one of the great Romantic poets. Although often viewed as a ’nature poet ’ ‚ his
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Phil1750-100 Immortality‚ desirable or not? In “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality”‚ Bernard Williams argues that immortality is undesirable because one would achieve one’s categorical desires which will cause one to become bored and find immortality undesirable. In this paper‚ I will argue that this argument fails because if one lives a recognizably human life‚ they will experience memory decay thus allowing them to repeat the same categorical desires without 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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An example of a poet who utlizes his unque writing ability is the Romantic William Wordsworth. Nature deeply affected Wordsworth throughout his life. He developed a sincere love of nature that would ultimately come across strongly in his poems. As a way of drawing the reader into the poems‚ Wordsworth initiates his particular style of incorporating sound effects with tone to portray nature as a serene being. Wordsworth cleverly uses specific connotation and reflective tone to effectively portray
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Musings On Immortality: Tennyson’s In Memoriam Lord Alfred Tennyson was so shaken by the death of his great friend Arthur Henry Hallam that he spent the next seventeen years composing poems of grief that later came together as one in In Memoriam. In a country so undisputedly Christian as England‚ there were very few Victorians who would denounce God or the church despite the great scientific discoveries that contradicted the Bible. While Tennyson did not denounce either‚ still he doubted. His
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In this paper‚ I will utilize Plato’s argument on immortality‚ the ability to live forever‚ on the soul. Plato was the first to argue against immortality and in his book‚ Phaedo‚ he has three arguments on immortality: The Cyclical Argument‚ The Argument from Recollection‚ and The Affinity Argument. Socrates believes that the “souls of the dead in the underworld” come from people who are living today and that the “living souls come back of those from the dead.” In Plato’s first argument‚ The Cyclical
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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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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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Concepts of Wordsworth Applied to Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth were two very dominant Romantic Era poets. They published some of their writings together‚ and were very influenced by each other in their writing style. We see this in Coleridge’s contribution to Wordsworth‚ Biographia Literaria. In Biographia Literaria‚ Coleridge gives praise to Wordsworth’s brilliance in his writings and makes it known how much he looked up to Wordsworth. Coleridge goes into detail describing
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Romanticism is a movement in literature that came as a result of a revolt against the previous period "Classicism". John Keats was an English poet who became one of the most important Romantic poets. William Wordsworth‚ another significant figure during Romanticism‚ described it as "liberalism in literature’‚ meaning the artist was free from restraints and rules‚ and was encouraged to write about his/her own experiences‚ rather than being a passive narrator praising an event or person. Romanticism
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