By a detailed description of any 3 of Wrdsworth's typical poetry, point out the poet's strength in this kind of poetry.

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By a detailed description of any three of Wordsworth’s typical poetry, point out the poet’s strengths in this type of poetry.

Almost all poetry of Wordsworth involves Nature at some level. In some poems, it is the vessel through which his philosophy is expressed ( Ode to Immortality, To a skylark, etc), while in others, Nature is described for its own sake – for Nature in Wordsworth’s poetry is but a form of God and the poems of the latter category can be taken as hymns to God from a Nature poet. Due to the great number of poems he authored, it is difficult to isolate just three that describe his strengths as a Nature poet the best. However, since I strongly believe Wordsworth was at his best as a Nature poet in poems that show his love for Nature for its own sake and it is in these poems that his romantic imagination and narrative powers are most enchanting, I shall be describing three of the enigmatic Lucy poems – “Lucy Gray”, “Three years she grew in sun and shower” and “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” to show Wordsworth’s strengths as a Nature poet.

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One of the attributes of Wordsworth’s poetry that gives them a timeless appeal is perhaps his effective use of imagery. For instance, in “Lucy Gray”, the establishment of Lucy as the personification of the more elusive, delicate aspects of Nature is complete in the very first stanza in the lines, “You yet may spy the fawn at play/ The hare upon the green/ But the sweet face of Lucy Gray/ Will never more be seen”. Here, the fawn and hare are aspects of Lucy’s own nature – playful, innocent and common. This is reinforced in the form of a ...

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