The main features of Wordsworth's poetry

1. Name :-Hetal Dabhi
Class :-Sem-2
 Paper No:- 5 (The Romantic literature)
 Year :-2019-20
 Email :-dabhihetal5500@gmail.com
 Anrolment no:-2069108420190009
 Submitted to :- S. B Gardi English
Department MKBU

2. The main features of Wordsworth’s
poetry
 in lyrical Ballads
 this is three main features of Wordsworth
poem
1. A focus on Simple
2. Obscure people
3. Use of everyday language and emphasis
on nature as an antidote to the corrupting
influences of society.

3.  In the poem ‘Lucy Gray ’ celebrates the life
of an obscure Cottage child disappear on
day but whose spirit is letter seen by other
cottages dancing on the moors.
 ‘The Solitary Reaper’ Wordsworth narrator
becomes transfixed by the hunting song of
a pesant women harvesting grain in the
Scottish Highlands.

4. continue………
 In the Lucy poems( different from ‘Lucy
Gray' ) the narrator describes his love for
an ordinary Cottage-dwelling women from
the English lake district who dies young.
 Wordsworth uses simple everyday language
in “I Wondered Lonely as a cloud”

5. Continue………
 In which he describes how he is lifted with
joy by the sight of thousands of daffodils
waving in the wind by a lake. He has an
emotional response to this natural scene
and remembers it with great pleasure many
times in the wintry months.

6. Continue……
He uses words like line and bay, glance and
dance, that anyone could understand :
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.

7. Continue…….
 He also states that nature is worth more than
wealth, reccurrent theme in his poems : “The
World is Too Much with Us.”
 The poem reapeats the refrain : “getting and
spending we lay waste our powers.” We are so busy
earning money that, Wordsworth says, “little we
see in Nature that is ours,” a loss the poet lament.
 Simple language, simple people, love of nature
:Wordsworth influence stays with us still.