How does Wordsworth explore knowledge and nature?
How does Wordsworth explore nature and knowledge? The theme of the need for a return to Nature was a predominant theme during the Romantic Age. Wordsworth employed the theme of nature as a vehicle for demonstrating a movement toward self-knowledge. However, the employment of the theme is usually for the purpose of elaborating on a possibly more significant theme in Romantic poetry - the workings of the human mind. The poet used the theme in different ways to accentuate his overlying premise of the need for reflection and thought. During the early Romantic period, there were many revolutions including the American and French revolutions where there was reform in the social, economic and political systems. During the Romantic period one of the major changes was the transformation of one's perception of his or her world. William Wordsworth had a very influential effect during this period of Romanticism. Throughout Lyrical ballads nature is used to criticise society and the attempts to change. In Wordsworth's poem "Lines written in Early Spring", there are several references to nature. Wordsworth uses animals, trees and air to depict an image of the reality that he lives in and its conflicts. Wordsworth criticised reality from his perspective, by combining the human senses and nature to recreate the reality they experience in the reader's mind. Wordsworth's aim was to make
'Write a Comparison of 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth and 'London' by William Blake stating which you prefer and giving reasons for your preference.'
Theresa Dolan 'Write a Comparison of 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth and 'London' by William Blake stating which you prefer and giving reasons for your preference.' The contrast between the two poems is quite conspicuous. 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' is very positive, illustrating London as a marvellous place which he thinks very highly of. Whereas 'London' is very negative, using very gloomy words. 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' is a sonnet declaring his love for London however, 'London' has a strict rhyming scheme, four stanzas with four lines in each. I prefer 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' because I am a happy person, and it is more positive. 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' is all about London and the buildings' atmosphere in the early morning. 'Silent, bear'. 'London' is referring to the people and there hardship of living there. 'Infants cry of fear'. 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' is praising London. This is shown by the use of words like 'splendour', and 'glittering'. Yet 'London' is blaming the city for the miserable lives of the people 'mind-forged manacles'. Wordsworth's language is very formal. He uses formal standard punctuation. This gives the effect that everything is wonderful. When you speak formally, it conveys a more elegant and luxurious atmosphere. This is complimented by his use of vocabulary. Blake,
Compare and contrast how Lord Byron's She Walks in Beauty and William Wordsworth's She was a Phantom of Delight explore the theme of attraction to mysterious beauty. In your answer you must comment on:
Compare and contrast how Lord Byron's She Walks in Beauty and William Wordsworth's She was a Phantom of Delight explore the theme of attraction to mysterious beauty. In your answer you must comment on: * How the poets ideas and feelings are conveyed through language, structure and form. * The patterns and details of words and images. This essay intends to explore the theme of attraction in two similar poems by pre 20th century poets Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. This essay will include the background of each of the poets and how the poets ideas are outlined using language, structure and form. The essay will hopefully show using various quotes how the subject of mysterious beauty is put forth and the way in which the personality of characters differ from each poem. The essay will also come to some conclusion about the similarities and differences between both poems. This paragraph will give information on the backgrounds of each of the poets and how this may affect the poems. This paragraph will also compare the two poets so that a conclusion can be made. William Wordsworth the younger of the two romantic poets was born in 1770 and studied at Cambridge university. After university he lived most of his life with his sister in the Lake District where he met the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he produced the famous Lyrical Ballads. He was a very strict and
By close critical reading, establish which if any of Wordsworths Lucy poems deserves to be regarded as the odd-one-out.
By close critical reading, establish which - if any - of Wordsworth's "'Lucy'" poems deserves to be regarded as the odd-one-out. 'Strange fits of passion I have known' is about a man on a horse to see his lover. 'my horse drew nigh those paths so dear to me.' The horse knew exactly where he was going so no instructions needed. Wordsworth had written this poem so it has a parallax effect, and the readers view changes going through the poem. The rhyme scheme for this poem is abab, the wording to this poem was complicated but the words fitted perfectly as there was no word that wasn't needed. Wordsworth probably based this poem on a newspaper story. 'Fresh as a rose in June' comparing a woman to a rose means that she is very pretty at the start then after some time its starts to wither and become unimportant and ugly then eventually dies, so this means she won't last. This poem is based on romance and weirdness not hate but at the end of the poem 'Lucy' is dead. '''Lucy' Gray, or 'Solitude'' the base of this poem is that there are three characters- a little girl called 'Lucy', her mother and her father- a summary of the poem would be, her mother goes out to town and a blizzard starts, 'Lucy' goes out to find her mother- by the father sending her out, her mother comes back fine - she is an adult she would know how to get back, they go out shouting for her 'wretched parents all
Comparisons between ' The Daffodils' by William Wordsworth and 'The new fast automatic Daffodils' by Adrian Henri.
Comparisons between ' The Daffodils' by William Wordsworth and 'The new fast automatic Daffodils' by Adrian Henri. Both titles show that the poems are about daffodils. The word 'fast' and 'automatic' in Henri's title prepares the reader for more modern variation. 'The daffodils' by Wordsworth, is about daffodils. The poet is dreaming or thinking of daffodils, like for example: 'Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze' and 'I wandered as a lonely cloud'. The poet is really fascinated by the daffodils, because he is describing it so beautiful. It is a very happy poem and also very natural, calm, appreciated and thoughtful. The poem has an effect. The rhythm is effective, it helps people to remember the poem better. The rhyme scheme: ab ab cc makes it easy to remember. Stanza 4 means: The poet is lying on his back looking to the sky and thinking about the daffodils. By thinking of the daffodils, it makes him happy and he gets happy thoughts about it. 'The waves beside them dance', is a metaphor. I would definitely chose this poem, because it is a relaxing poem, I think the poem will attract people. It tells people what he thinks of daffodils. The poem refers to the characteristics of landscapes. It think, people form the 1900 will understand it because it is written in their language. Where the people won't be able to understand it
“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” and “London 1802” By Wordsworth.
Pre 20th Century Poems The first poem I have chosen to examine is called "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth and the second is "London 1802" also by Wordsworth. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and died in 1850, he was a leading romantic poet of his time, his treatments of nature is often used in his poems, and are closely related to a religious send of the meaning of life. The mood of most of his work is reflective and calm. It is a sonnet with the rhyming sequence of ABBAABBACDCDCD. The tone of this poem is that of pleasure and appreciation to be able to see and enjoy the beautiful sight of London as it was in 1802. It is a description of London in 1802, this is a completely different era to now and many aspects of city are different. The poet, Wordsworth, is standing on Westminster Bridge looking out over London. He says that is the most wonderfully sight that anyone could ever see "Earth has not anything to show more fair" He goes on to that anyone who is not touched has a dull soul. London is described as being regal. "This city doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning..." These lines use personification to describe the beauty of the morning sun shining down on the city. The city is "wearing" the beauty of the morning and it is peaceful, the next line includes everything in to the peace and tranquillity "Ships, towers, domes,
Wordsworth and Milton, Sonnets and poems.
Poetry Coursework Sonnets are poems that have fourteen lines that usually have a recognized rhyming scheme. A sonnet generally has two sections; with the first section normally having eight lines and the second section having six. The rhythm in each line of the sonnet can also apply with sonnet traditions and the syllables (which is counted in feet) can define which tradition it is - French, Italian or English. Sonnets were commonly written in the sixteenth to eighteenth century and often written to express emotions of happiness, sadness, and love or written for someone in particular by request. I have chosen to study three of William Wordsworth's sonnets and one by John Milton. The poems I am going to study by William Wordsworth are: 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', 'To Lady Fitzgerald, In her Seventieth Year' and 'Composed On a May Morning'. I have chosen to study John Milton's 'Sonnet to the Nightingale'. 'Composed Upon a May Morning' is Wordsworth's view of London from Westminster Bridge. It was written in the early morning when not many people were around and the city seemed 'asleep'. The poet writes what he saw - "Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie...Open unto the fields, and to the sky;". In 'Composed On a May Morning' Wordsworth again describes what he sees, but in this poem it is early on a May morning, in the countryside, watching the
Discuss the way in which Wordsworth and Heaney present nature and rural life in their poetry.
GCSE English coursework Assignment Pre 20th Century Poetry Discuss the way in which Wordsworth and Heaney present nature and rural life in their poetry. Born 1770, in Cockermouth, William Wordsworth spent his early life and many of his formative years attending a boys' school in Hawkshead, a village in the Lake District. As can be seen in his poetry, the years he spent living in these rural surroundings provided many of the valuable experiences Wordsworth had as he grew up. At the age of 17, Wordsworth moved south to study at Saint John's College, University of Cambridge. Later, in 1790, two years after the French Revolution had begun; he took a walking tour through France and Switzerland on vacation. France obviously captivated Wordsworth's attention, because a year later he made a return visit. This time he met a French woman, named Annette Vallon, with whom he had an illegitimate daughter. As rivalry and conflict between England and France continued to grow, Wordsworth made the decision to settle in Dorset with his sister, Dorothy. There he met fellow poet and future colleague, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Three years on, Wordsworth and Dorothy moved again, this time to Somerset, which was closer to Coleridge. This resulted in the publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' in 1798, which was a joint collection by Coleridge and Wordsworth. A year later, William and Dorothy
An analytical comparison between Philip Larkin's 'Here' and Wordsworth's 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'.
An analytical comparison between Philip Larkin's 'Here' and Wordsworth's 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' Several revolutions, wars, and monarchs greatly influenced a new appreciation for nature, country and simplicity in order to escape industrialisation. The structure, style, and imagery of Romanticism are prominent in Wordsworth's 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', while a hidden theme of nature peers through the descriptions. This theme of nature is similarly echoed in 'Here' where Larkin recreates the natural beauty he envisaged through verbal means and the sublime use of word choice and word placement emphatically conveys the vivid projection of urban life and of nature from his understanding. My own first impressions are that the poem 'Here' seems to involve a journey, a movement from one place to a different one. It is highly descriptive, overloaded with objects that are listed and that the final stanza contrasts in many aspects, with the previous three stanzas, in that the final stanza seems more contemplative and slightly more positive in tone. 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', which is a sonnet, shows Wordsworth relishing the elegance and beauty of London and its tranquility. What I interpreted from this is Wordsworth had a similar desire for tranquility and solitude as did Larkin. In Larkin's poem he is on a journey and so we can say he may be traveling on a
William Wordsworth's poem Upon Westminster Bridge is a sonnet, it creates a pleasurable passage that is easily read and understood while still accessing a great deal of emotion and image form. It
Liang Chen William Wordsworth's poem Upon Westminster Bridge is a sonnet, it creates a pleasurable passage that is easily read and understood while still accessing a great deal of emotion and image form. It gives different readers, many different interpretations of what the poem is about, the images and emotions felt, yet still maintaining the secret of what Wordsworth himself would have had in mind about the meaning of the poem. Upon Westminster Bridge creates for the reader that sense of awe that was felt by William Wordsworth whilst gazing upon the view of London and this awe can also be felt by the readers themselves. This sense of awe can be seen from the very beginning of the passage, "Earth has not anything to show more fair:" just the language used is like a spell cast upon the reader giving off a sense of calmness and tranquillity. This feeling in the language is reflected in the atmosphere of the time in which the poem is set, early morning, just as the sun is starting to show above the horizon. Where the citizens of London are still in bed, the busy city still asleep and motionless. The impression of religious symbology can also be felt in this poem. "Dull would he be the soul who could pass by..." the word "soul" in this line gives the reader the impression of a reverential tone. Soul is a word that is used mostly in a religious context and having it in the poem