Wordsworth in Preface to Lyrical Ballads has said; “For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. He has also said “The subject is indeed important!” (Wordsworth). Poems from Guantanamo has both these things and more. Indeed‚ Wordsworth preferred poems of “common life” and “common man”. Poets of this collection Poems from Guantanamo are neither common men nor their experiences common. Yet Wordsworth has also said “Poetry is the image of
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the question. Support your discussion with evidence from the text. I. Hook: John Muir and William Wordsworth were both two lonely people who had their love‚ passion‚ and connection for nature in common. Nature had brought them an abundance of joy‚ and took away their loneliness and sad states. A. Bridge: At some point‚ they had decided to put it down on paper how it affected them. Muir and Wordsworth described how nature’s essence had healed their minds and healed them of their negativity. The essence
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picture the wildest scenes in their heads. A poem that supports this is "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‚" by William Wordsworth. This poem is written from the first person view of the person lying on a couch in the house‚ using a pleasant and calming tone. The person pictures two main scenes: (1) nature with trees‚ daffodils‚ and hills‚ and (2) space with stars and the Milky Way. William Wordsworth uses figurative language such as personification through out the whole poem to bring the nouns to life. "I Wandered
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be different. Therefore‚ if the reader can fully comprehend a poem‚ he will obtain meaningful information beyond what the author had intended. William Wordsworth wrote a tremendous poem called‚ “The World Is Too Much With Us” which has a much deeper meaning than what the words express. From analyzing a series of amazing elements‚ the author Wordsworth expresses his point by writing this poem with personification‚ and point of view; the audience comes to understand that people should tolerate and serve
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important sense this particular poem is only marginally concerned with what appear to be its principal subjects; the reaper and her song. I want to look at the poem in some detail‚ for despite its apparent plainness I believe it to be a work in which Wordsworth meditates with considerable subtlety on the status of the creative act‚ and its importance as a 92 GEOFFREY J. FINCH basic human endeavour. A s my discussion of the poem is‚ as I have said‚ fairly detailed‚ I think I ought to reproduce
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Tintern Abbey: Seeing into the Life of Things What does Wordsworth see when he ’sees into the life of things?’; Remember that in the lines leading up to his portrayal of the ’blessed mood’; that gives him sight‚ Wordsworth has been pointing to the power of human memory and reflection. And the importance of memory and reflection are made plain by the shifting time perspectives in the poem. The poem begins with the speaker on the banks of the Wye for the first time in five years. At first
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Poetry Analysis of ’Pied Beauty’ and ’Composed Upon Wesminster Bridge’ Pied Beauty by Gerald Manley Hopkins and the Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth‚ both show the beauty of life and the world around us. The only difference is that the petrarchan Sonnet written by Wordsworth is thanking God for the beauty of nature’s landscapes and talking about the beautiful morning in London during the industrial revolution. The reduced version of a petrarchan Sonnet by Hopkins
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is of course mother of Romantic movement but we have seen many other sowing seeds of romanticism. Thomson‚ Collins‚ Gray‚ Richardson‚ and Prevost are those whose theology and art are the most marvelous romance of all. Many other includes William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ Lord Byron‚ and Walter Scott in Britain; and Victor Hugo‚ Alfonse de Lamar tine‚ George Sand‚ and Alexandre Dumas in France. Above all Rousseau matured the seeds of romanticism in the hothouse of his
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should take more time in life to enjoy it and do as much as possible before we pass away. In the poems “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith‚ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas‚ and “The World Is Too Much with Us” by William Wordsworth touch on the theme of death and mortality. The ballad poem “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith is about a man who was going through depression in his life and the people who knew him
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As well as the tone he uses is exactly what he wants us to see that nature has power over him. Wordsworth uses diction when he says‚ “lonely as a cloud” This shows the negative felling his going through. He feels lonely and very sad. His diction connotes to something unpositive his going through so this is the start of the poem that guides us through
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