Discuss Wordsworth's and Coleridge's attitudes to nature in Their poetry with particular reference to Resolution and Independence (The Leech Gatherer) and This Lime Tree Bower my prison.
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How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism? A. Romantic
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Comparison with 'The Thought-Fox' and 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'
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A Critical Introduction to the Poetry of Wordsworth.
Jamie Johnson A Critical Introduction to the Poetry of Wordsworth Wordsworth's poetry reflects upon the many exciting changes that occurred in society during his era and upon aspects of his own history. He originates from the Lake District, bring born on 7 April 1770 in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth. He was the second child of four boys and one girl in a family that suffered much financial hardship as his father John Wordsworth (an attorney) was owed money by the Earl of Lowther. When his mother died in 1778, he attended a grammar school in Hawkshead in the centre of the Lake District. It was here that Wordsworth experienced a time of intense exploration of the countryside, exploration which provided much of the inspiration for his poetry for example The Nutting and The Prelude. In 1787 Wordsworth went up to Cambridge where he discovered that academic study was not for him, 'I was not for that hour, Nor for that Place', and he began to write poetry and read for pleasure. Through his poetry he attempted to combine the knowledge he gained from books with the emotion ands sensitivity to Nature he gained from his early life. I feel this to be vividly expressed in the poem Expostulation and Reply and The Tables Turned as he conveys there importance of learning through experience, such as that of nature, rather than through intellect. Wordsworth lived in an exciting
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How does Lyrical Ballads show us Wordsworth and Coleridge's views on childhood? During the romantic period views on childhood dramatically changed from the previous. The enlightenment involved people having the belief that children should have no respects and as a result were 'seen and no heard'. This dramatically changed to children being a source of learning, so children could teach adults ways of life. This essay will discuss the different aspects of childhood and look at Wordsworth and Coleridge's views. From a romantics point of view children were seen as pure, simple and innocent human beings, which had great importance to the world's teachings. Wordsworth gives the idea that a child is simple in the poem 'We are seven' (pg 59) when the opening line says "a simple child, drear brother Jim". The poem idealises childhood, describing a little girl to be a "sweet maid". The young girl lives out in the countryside, which at that time would be seen as a good thing, people who were raised in the countryside would be seen to have more moral than those brought up in towns. Rousseau believed that humans were born into the world innocent, with great potential for goodness, and that it was the adult world of organised religion, which corrupted them. He believed the idea of the "noble savage", something/one that is compatible with nature. The idea of this 'noble savage' is
By a detailed description of any 3 of Wrdsworth's typical poetry, point out the poet's strength in this kind of poetry.
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. 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
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant - summary of narrative, themes
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In Lucy Gray and There was a boy Wordsworth examines childhood in similar ways bringing out his views of this time in peoples lives
Holly Mozley Sunday, 25 November 2012 Examine the ways in which Wordsworth portrays childhood in two poems from the Lyrical Ballads ________________ In Lucy Gray and ‘There was a boy’ Wordsworth examines childhood in similar ways bringing out his views of this time in people’s lives. Lucy Gray is about a young girl who gets lost on the “Wild” who died in a snowstorm. ‘There was a boy’ is about a boy imitating owls and the oppressive nature of the silence he encounters when they leave as well as his possibly metaphorical and literal death at the end of the poem. Wordsworth discusses the ephemerality of life in these poems with the idea of “spots of time”, the innocence lost and the experience gained in these poems through the use of images of death and examines the relationship that the children have with nature. Throughout these poems he creates tensions of time, expression and emotions with the structure of the poems aiding the way he portrays the boy and Lucy in the poems. In the Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth is obsessed with the ephemeral nature of human life juxtaposed with his portrayal of the natural world as something timeless. Wordsworth uses edges in the natural landscape to mirror human ephemerality in the everlasting natural world the “Cliffs”, “edges of hills” and the idea of things “setting” suggests this poem is interested in
The Daffodils
THE DAFFODILS I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed - and gazed - but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. The Daffodils Ashleigh Carr 2A AT3; An Analytical Essay November 2002 For my piece of coursework I have chosen the famous poem 'The Daffodils' written by William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth was born in 1770, in Cumberland. He was sent to Cambridge and later married Mary Hutchinson. Orphaned as a child, he had a very close relationship with his sister Dorothy. She lived with William and Mary in the Lake District village of Grasmere. He and Mary had four children but sadly two of the four died. In 1843, Wordsworth