[pic] “WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AS THE WORSHIPPER OF NATURE” INTRODUCTION There’s nothing quite like poetry for singing a paean to nature. Among the many celebrated nature poets‚ William Wordsworth is probably the most famous. What sets his work apart from others is that his poetry was‚ in fact‚ an act of nature-worship. Wordsworth perceived the presence of divinity and healing in nature‚ the presence of a higher spirit that he considered a `balm’ to weary souls. His poem‚ Tintern Abbey‚ depicts with
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We Are Seven by Wordsworth is a thinking poem. It is deep. It says that death does not diminish a family‚ nor a young girls love of her whole family. It says what Wordsworth believes that death is not an ending‚ but a transformation. This thought come alive by Wordsworth repeating the girl’s words we are seven to his question of how many are in the family. William Wordsworth was a great English poet. He is known for his contribution in romantic English literature. "We are Seven" is a poem which
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2011 “A Man of Men”: William Wordsworth William Wordsworth is widely considered one of the most influential English romantic poets. In the preface of his book‚ Lyrical Ballads‚ published in 1798‚ Wordsworth declared that poetry should contain language really used by men. This idea‚ and many of his others‚ challenged the old eighteenth-century idea of formal poetry and‚ therefore‚ he changed the course of modern poetry (Damrosch‚ 397). Wordsworth was born of Cockermouth‚ West
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William Wordsworth: Michael IF from the public way you turn your steps Up the tumultuous brook of Greenhead Ghyll‚ You will suppose that with an upright path Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent The pastoral mountains front you‚ face to face. But‚ courage! for around that boisterous brook The mountains have all opened out themselves‚ And made a hidden valley of their own. No habitation can be seen; but they Who journey thither find themselves alone With a few sheep‚ with
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William Wordsworth’s poetry embodies the spiritual focus of romantics and their refusal to conform to the literary traditions of the age of reason. The modern “rational” world which Wordsworth came from was becoming increasingly polluted and destructive. It prohibited the imaginative escape of authors and so people like Wordsworth found solace and escape in what was left of nature and their own imaginative poems. Poems like “Strange Fits of Passion have I Known” and “the Solitary reaper” illustrate
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One of the most famous poets during the romantic era was William Wordsworth‚ born on April 7‚ 1770 in Cockermouth‚ United Kingdom. He was the second child out of five‚ his parents were John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson Wordsworth. Both father and mother died around his boyhood leaving him with four sibling orphans. William was well-known for writing poetry‚ as a matter of fact‚ his literally period was a romantic age develop in England. Famous authors he worked with were Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor
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enthusiasm of nature. The role of nature is prominent in Romantic poetry; it is also the primary concern for a worshipper of nature-William Wordsworth. This concern is to appreciate the sublime beauty of nature as living personality‚ to search for the union between the mind and nature‚ and to acquire aspiring insights by embracing nature. In almost of his poems‚ Wordsworth described the pure beauty of nature through his gentle words and also conceived that nature as living personality. He believed that
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loneliness in William Wordsworth’s poem. The very first sentence also introduces the theme of loneliness: ’I wandered lonely as a cloud.’ Here this simile reminds us of how empty a sky is‚ and therefore how empty the person is. There is a part of them that is not fulfilled- this is having a companion. The fact that it is an obscure simile; a person is compared to a cloud; draws attention tho the sentence and emphasises the theme of loneliness. The sentence ’For oft when on my couch I lie’ also
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Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ Poem William Wordsworth wrote Daffodils on a stormy day in spring‚ while walking along with his sister Dorothy near Ullswater Lake‚ in England. He imagined that the daffodils were dancing and invoking him to join and enjoy the breezy nature of the fields. Dorothy Wordsworth‚ the younger sister of William Wordsworth‚ found the poem so interesting that she took ’Daffodils’ as the subject for her journal. The poem contains six lines in four stanzas‚ as an appreciation
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William Wordsworth and romantic Poetry In Wordsworth’s “We are seven”‚ characteristics of nature was included because beginning on line 41 the little cottage girl says” My stockings there I often knit‚ My ‘kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit- I sit and sing to them‚” this stanza shows how the girl enjoys the therapeutic quality of sitting outside by the church-yard tree with her brother and sister. The beautiful girl also discusses how she is one out of seven‚ even when she is
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