What seem to be Wordsworths attitudes toward women, based on the poems youve read?

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What seem to be Wordsworth’s attitudes toward women, based on the poems you’ve read?

        William Wordsworth is from a time when men were thought to be superior to women ultimately affecting his own opinion. Women of that time had no rights and usually did not own property; they were seen as property. This accepted way of life not only affects the poet’s thoughts, such as Wordsworth, but their poems as well.

        Wordsworth poems consist mostly of his thoughts, experiences, and nature. Although Wordsworth wrote many poems including the women in his life, he always wrote about them in relation to him or through his point of view.  Wordsworth’s never wrote in a harsh tone towards women, he wrote as if he and nature were superior to them. Putting nature and him on the same level, while allowing women to exist in their world. Wordsworth also became sort of a ventriloquist with the women in his stories, though this is a normal thing to do as a poet, it’s easy to see between the lines. His female character’s all related to Wordsworth’s experiences and spoke from point of view, nothing more. Female characters even had only the certain qualities and characteristics Wordsworth preferred.

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        Wordsworth attitude towards women is becomes very clear to readers in certain poems, such as “Lines” [Tintern Abbey] and “Lucy” poems. The poem “Lines” is a reflection of Wordsworth life, explaining his love for nature as a child and a mature adult. Wordsworth explains how his matured age allowed him to appreciate his younger memories of nature more and how they are his personal escape and distraction from his hardships. When Wordsworth sister Dorothy appears in his poems, it is spoken from her point of view, but only as a reflection of himself five years younger. He writes only how ...

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