WHAT ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NEOCLASSICAL AND ROMANTICISM? ALEXANDER POPE AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND ALEXANDER POPE

1. COMPARISON BETWEEN ALEXANDER POPE
AND WORDSWORTH

2. ◼Name:- Janvi Nakum
◼Roll no:-15
◼Batch :-2021-2023 Sem1
◼Enrollment no:-4069206420210020
◼Subject :- History of English Literature
◼Email id:-janvinak360@gmail.com
◼Submitted to:- Department of English Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji University Bhavnagar

3. WHAT IS NEOCLASSICISM?
Neoclassicism is a movement that drew motivation from the classical
Greek/Roman age. The scholars of this period attempted to emulate
the style of Greeks andRomans. Neoclassicism was a response against
the renaissance, which was between 1660 and 1798.

4. WHAT IS ROMANTICISM?
◼ Romanticism is an abstract movement that started around 1789. The
fundamental elements of this movement is its accentuation on the
creative mind, subjectivity, inspiration, and human emotions. The
Romantic movement drew motivation from Medieval and Baroque
periods and its primary topics were nature, life, and love.

5. COMPARISON BETWEEN NEOCLASSICAL V/S
ROMANTICISM

6. COMPARISON

7. WHAT ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NEOCLASSICAL
AND ROMANTICISM?
◼ Neoclassicism and romanticism are frequently viewed as reactionary
movements that arose from different historical periods. The
principle distinction between neoclassicism and romanticism is that
neoclassicism focuses on objectivity, reason, and Intellect. While
romanticism stresses on human creativity, nature, and emotions or
feelings.
◼ The romanticism movement has influenced various topics, styles,
and themes. Neoclassicism pays respect to the old-style of Greece
and Roman art periods.

8. ALEXANDER POPE AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

9. COMPARISON OF POETRY
◼ The genre of poetry known as “pastoral” is an ancient form that has undergone many
permutations and revitalizations.
◼ Two writers of pastorals are the English poets Alexander Pope and William Wordsworth.
The pastorals of Pope are neo-classical poems in which Pope attempts to emulate the
great Greek and Roman poets like Homer and Virgil by mentioning Greek figures, writing
in heroic couplets, and indulge in abstraction.
◼ Wordsworth, on the other hand, creates a more modern way of writing poetry by focusing
not on the classical masters, but on emotion, reality, and discerning the fundamental
truths of human nature.
◼ By engaging with both Alexander Pope’s “Pastorals” and William Wordsworth’s “Michael:
A Pastoral Poem” one can observe a tangible shift in poetry away from the Neo-Classical
and towards the Romantic in both style and content, especially as it regards to realism,
universality, and the role of the poet as a creator of the work.
◼ The first way in which Pope and Wordsworth differ is in their treatment of reality.

10. COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND
ALEXANDER POPE
◼ The works of William Wordsworth and Alexander Pope have
similarities and differences. The poems of Wordsworth belong to
the period of Romanticism, while Pope was inspired by the ideas
of Neoclassicism. This paper will compare and contrast these two
artists and their poems, The World is Too Much with Us by
William Wordsworth and The Essay on Man by Alexander Pope.
First, paper will discuss their lives and the factors that influenced
their literary work. Later, the aforementioned poems will be
analyzed and interpreted.

11. CONTINUE…
◼ The ideas of William Godwin greatly influenced the life of Wordsworth
and his writing considering the principles that Godwin appeared to
defend during the French Revolution resisting social injustice. Moreover,
the poet strongly believed in the “natural sublime”, where sublime
means the amazement and fear of the prominence and magnificence.
His works however were not so deeply focused on the nature as opposite
to the writings by Pope. Wordsworth’s poems are brief and dramatic;
some are dedicated to his beloved sister Dorothy. In some works, he
glorifies plants, birds, and other elements of nature’s divine design; other
poems describe the lives of fellow countryside folks showing the simple
truths of human character. The author believed that poetry is the most
philosophical of all writing that aims at instilling the vibrant truth in the
hearts through the ardour and passion.

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