William Wordsworth's Poetry and Romanticism

William Wordsworth Research Paper
William Wordsworth "Fill your paper with breathings of your heart." William Wordsworth was a poet who not only inspired himself, but also inspired
a number others. As some may know he was a son, brother, and a father. But most importantly, he was a famous poet. He never once let his rough and
tragic lifetime get in the way of his creative writing.
II: Historical Information from Author's Time
William Wordsworthwas a poet who wrote in the Romantic Era. The Romantic Era lasted approximately fifty years. It is estimated that the era began
around 1800, and ended in around 1850. The Romantic Period is often described as a period that was an artistic, musical, literary, and intellectual
movement that took place toward the ending of the eighteenth...show more content...
Only being three stanzas long, this poem became known as a favorite among many of the early readers considered it a favorite. The poem is about a
young woman or lady that Wordsworth admired, known in the poem as a "maid". He connected nature to the poem because he made a connection with
nature at an early age, and most–likely thought as highly of her as he did nature. But everything changes when you think hard about it. Wordsworth
uses the word dwelt, and when thought about we would soon realize that the woman he loved was
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An Analysis on William Wordsworth's Poetry
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
The poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 1, July 1798" is deeply rooted in
its author's personal history. It was written by the poet William Wordsworthafter taking a walking tour along the Welsh Borders with his sister,
Dorothy. In the summer of 1973, Wordsworth visited North Wales when he was still quite young and anxious, with the world on his shoulders. He
was, at that time, still new in his profession, with very radical political views, as well as an estranged father to an illegitimate child in France. He was
only twenty–three years old then. Five years later, when he returned to...show more content...
He discovers a deeper sense of existence when gazing across the scenery, as opposed to the shallow and superficial perspective he once had. He
finds himself more calm and restored when immersed in nature, and that nature inspires in him a sublime state. Wordsworth was so entranced with
the beauty of the Wye that it would cause him to feel dizzy or slow down his breathing, but as he grew older, this tendency of his had changed; the
beauty no longer overwhelmed him as much, and he had more control over his senses where he would look and actually see, or hear and truly

William Wordsworth Essay
William Wordsworth William Wordsworth is considered to be the greatest among all of the English Romantic poets. Although he did not always get
the recognition that he rightfully deserved in the early part of his career, only through trials and tribulations did he reach the pinnacle of the literary
world. "Wordsworth said of "the Prelude" that it was "a thing unprecedented in the literary history that a man should talk so much about himself": " I
had nothing to do but describe what I had felt and thought" and " therefore could not easily be bewildered.""(Sinatra, 1) Wordsworth's innovative
concept of nature and his frank exploration of his feelings and philosophical ideas created his own original poetic theory. Asserting himself as...show
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The revolution stirred deep into his soul, changing him forever, to the point that his poems reflect these things. As a poetic spokesman he told of the
voice of the common man, and their rights as human beings. "(Frank N. Magil et al, 2200) Returning to England, Wordsworth briefly found
congeniality in a circle of other young freethinkers. To his content, they were radical philosophers, one of whom was William Godwin, the author of
"Political Justice". "However this was short lived, soon after William found himself settling in with his talented sister Dorothy Wordsworth. It was
during this time, Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge who soon would change his life forever. Both men were intellectual free thinkers, and with
mutual stimulation and constant companionship they published joint a small volume which would become a milestone in English literature."( Frank
N. Magill et al, 2200–2201) This was the Lyrical Ballads; and although at first it did not receive recognition, it would become sufficiently justified in
its second printing in 1800. Lyrical Ballads consisted of pieces from Wordsworth's "Tinern Abbey" and a group of shorter, ballad like compositions
celebrating the common man. In 1803 during a trip to Scotland, the two found a conflict among them, to the result of this their friendship was broken,
and too shattered to be ever mended. In 1802 Wordsworth ironically married his childhood

Depression In William Wordsworth
I have been seeing three new patients recently, all Romantic poets who appear to be suffering from various levels of melancholy. Although each
one of these poets is highly successful and influential in the Romantic Movement, each has experienced bouts of dejection, loneliness, and
disillusionment with reality. However, this melancholy seems different from cases I have encountered in the past. Strangely, none of these clients
show symptoms of the excessive black bile that typically associated with melancholy such as apathy, lack of motivation, and hopelessness (Brady,
Haapala). In fact, while all of these clients experience melancholic thoughts, these emotions appear to be more complex than depression as they
allow the pleasures of deep reflection and often lead to feelings of sublime joy and inspiration. Instead of suffering from a clinical form of
melancholy or depression, these clients appear to be experiencing a complex emotion of joypain which they believe has "the capacity to reveal the
infinite powers of the self or the imagination" (Murray, 722). Yet, while all of these poets seem to believe in the importance of melancholy as
inspiration for their work, each of these poets also seems to express this emotion in different ways. While one of these poets, Mr. William Wordsworth,
often turns his negative ruminations into positive reflections on nature and memory, Mr. Coleridge instead experiences deeper melancholic moments
that he cannot dispel quite so easily. Mr. John

William Wordsworth And Romanticism
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart," these are the words of William Wordsworth, an English Romantic Poet that helped pave the way for
Romanticism in the early nineteenth century. John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, also English Romantic Poets, were influenced by Wordsworth's
works. All are known for their many beautiful and revolutionary poems. They allowed influences of life and their surroundings to contribute to their
works of art. The challenges of life create a pathway to creative imagination.
William Wordsworthwas born in Northwest England in 1770. He was orphaned at a young age losing his mother then his father and was sent away to
school where he received a good education (Aubrey). While entering adulthood, in...show more content...
During his early school days, he was bullied due to his more pretty rather than handsome looks, because of this he developed a hatred for oppression
which lasted a lifetime (O'Connor). The victimization he endured and the social as well as political injustices he observed and read about led him to
become a dissident against irresponsible power, recognizing in self–seeking forte and undemanding conformism props to injustice. Having started
writing in his teens Shelley first wrote about gothic horror despite his passion to change the world. He commenced in Oxford in early 1810, but was
expelled short of a year due to an iconoclasm publication he wrote with Thomas Hogg. It wasn't until 1813 while living in London that his first
important poem was published by Thomas Hookham, during this time he also befriended William Goodwin "the primary source of Shelley's
egalitarian political thought." (O'Connor). Shelley traveled a bit more after this moving from place to place exploring different types of writing. Then
by 1818 he fell into a transformed wordsworthian form of writing with the poems "Hymn to intellectual beauty" and "Mont Blanc." These two poems
suggest a nonanthropomorphic something whose influence is behind all things but can only be known secondarily through one's own creative intellect.
In 1839 "Peter Bell the Third" was published, a wordsworthian parody by Shelley written in 1819. Having been acquainted with many

William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much With Us" is a Romantic Sonnet that can be broken into two parts. The speaker tells us in the first part
that we have lost our connection with nature, and that that connection was one of our most important relationships. The speaker the goes on to tell us
that that he is willing to sacrifice everything to recover this relationship, and begins on line 9. In romantic poems, the speaker tries to convince us of
our flaws, in this case our skewed relationship with nature, and convince us to change our ways. The speaker in Wordsworth's poem is no different in
this respect, and utilizes shock to grab our attention and really get us to notice just how serious he believes this problem is. Although he uses...show
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Wordsworth, however, shows both sides of nature. He does show nature as gentle when he talks about "sleeping flowers" (7) and when he talks
about the "Sea that bares her bosom to the moon" (5). He talks about nature as frightening and dangerous when he says that "The winds that will be
howling at all hours" (6). This shows not only the fury of nature, but when contrasted with more gentle images, the speaker shows the versatility and
inclemency that comes with nature. This helps the audience to trust the speaker more, because he is being honest about nature, and adds to the future
shock of his embracing it. Another way involves the structure of the poem. Being an Italian sonnet, the poem is supposed to break into two different
sections, the first being eight lines and the second being six. While Wordsworth does break his poem into two parts, he does it midway through the
ninth line. Although this may not mean much too us, but scholars and other well read people of his day would notice this immediately. He does this
because a main theme of this poem is to break away from the rules governing society, and he is clearly doing that with the structure of the poem. The
other two uses deal with the language and content of the poem. The other also occurs on line 9 where the speaker curses in the middle of the line
proclaiming "Great God!" Cursing like this was seldom heard in public back then, and was certainly not common in poetry. This is done again to try to
get the

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth, a poem that discloses the relationship between nature and human beings: how nature can
affect one's emotion and behavior with its motion and sound. The words the author adopted in this poem are interconnected and related to each other.
They are simple yet profound, letting us understand how much William Wordsworth related his works to nature and the universe. It also explained to
us why William Wordsworth is one of the greatest and the most influential English romantic poets in history. As Robert DiYanni says in his book, "with
much of Wordsworth's poetry, this lyric reflects his deep love of nature, his vision of a unified...show more content...
He sees the universe as a harmonious whole, in which every subject reflects and echoes the other. The daffodils became the speaker's companions in
the third stanza, and they were describing as "the jocund company" by the poet. He enjoys the company of the dancing daffodils, which brings him
happiness and joy.
As the poem goes on, the second emotion from the speaker occurs in the last stanza: the state of "solitude." "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," the first emotion of isolation and loneliness seems to
reappear here. But his mood is no longer just "vacant" as a "lonely cloud," but "pensive." His mind is now thoughtful and meditative because the
existence of the daffodils. If he is "vacant," he cannot remember anything; then his memory would be involuntary. Unlike the first emotion that took the
speaker out of his loneliness, the second emotion repeats and recurs to the speaker, as William Wordsworth uses the word "oft"–often. The speaker is
looking forward to his time of being alone, because the daffodils will be there to dance for him, to keep him company; as the poet writes, "which is
the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils."
William Wordsworth uses different groups of words in this poem to connect nature with human beings: the pattern of their

The Impact of William Wordsworth
The Impact of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, the age's great Bard, had a significant impact on his contemporaries. Best known for his
beautiful poems on nature, Wordsworth was a poet of reflection on things past. He realized however, that the memory of one's earlier emotional
experiences is not an infinite source of poetic material. As Wordsworth grew older, there was an overall decline in his prowess as a poet. Life's
inevitable change, with one's changes in monetary and social status, affected Wordsworth as well as his philosophies and political stances, sometimes
to the chagrin of his contemporaries.
Wordsworth, once a poet of social radicalism, became conservative in his views later in life, which grieved many of his...show more content...
Hemans describes the joy of reading Wordsworth out loud and the pleasure of rediscovering some pleasant childhood emotion. Hemans writes, "There,
from some gentle voice, that lay were sweet /As antique music, link'd with household words. /While in pleased murmurs, woman's lips might move,
/And the rais'd eye of childhood shine in love."(lines 15–18) Hemans is also amazed with the great Bard's ability to find beauty everywhere in nature
and cause his readers to see things with a different eye. Even in seemingly dismal surroundings, Hemans writes, "Thy verse hath power that brightly
might diffuse /A breath, a kindling, as of spring, around; /From its own glow of hope and courage high, /And steadfast faith's victorious
constancy."(lines 21–24) Wordsworth's vision is divine to Hemans, one that mystifies her. He gives life to the world around him and illuminates to the
reader something they were once blind to. She writes of Wordsworth: thou art ev'n as one
Who by some secret gift of soul or eye,
In every spot beneath the smiling sun,
Sees where the springs of living waters lie:
Unseen awhile they sleep В– till, touch'd by thee,
Bright healthful waves flow forth to each glad wanderer free.
(Lines 25 В– 30)
Another admirer of Wordsworth was John Keats. In his letters to John Hamilton Reynolds and Richard Woodhouse he reflects on the philosophy of
Wordsworth's poetry and

William Wordsworth Born April 7, 1770 to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson in Cockermouth, Cumberland was the poet William Wordsworth.
He was the second of five children. Richard, the oldest was a lawyer. Dorothy was a year younger than William and also a poet. John was a sea
captain of the Earl of Abergavenny and was killed in a shipwreck. Christopher was the youngest who became the Master of Trinity College at
Cambridge. In November in 1791, William visited France. He met and fell in love with Annette Vallon. In 1792, a daughter was born, Caroline
Wordsworth. In 1793 the tensions between France and England became so tense he left both Annette and Caroline behind to return to England.
He would not see either of them for years, but did try to support them. When he finally was able to visit again with Annette and Caroline, it was to
tell Annette he had fallen in love with another. It was after he told her that he wrote The Sonnet, a poem recalling a walk on the beach with his 9
year old Caroline, whom he had not seen in the years he was in England. In 1793, An Evening and Descriptive Sketches was published. In 1795 he
was finally able to pursue is dream to be a poet due to a 900 pound payment from Raisley Calvert. In 1795 William also met Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. Together with William's sister Dorothy the three wrote lyrical poems. This did not give any of them a name as an author. One of
William's most famous poems was published in a collection, it was Tintern Abbey. Samuel Coleridge also had a piece published in the collection,
it was The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Between the years of 1795 and 1797 William wrote his one and only play. The Borders was a tragic tale
during the reign of Henry III, in which the northerners had conflicts with Scottish rovers. The play was never acted, as according to Thomas Harris,
the manager of Covent Garden Theatre it needed significant revision. In 1842, it was revised and published. William, his sister Dorothy and friend
Samuel traveled to Germany in the fall of 1798. In the harsh winter he began work on his autobiographical, The Prelude. He also worked on a
collection of poems, the Lucy Poems. Dorothy and William returned to England in 1799.

William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He grew up surrounded by beautiful scenery. He was very
close to his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth. ("William Wordsworth Biography." NotableBiographies.com N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Feb 2012. <http:/
/www.notablebiographies.com/We–Z/Wordsworth–William.html>.) His sister led the way for him to love nature by showing him its beauty. His
mom died when he was eight years old and then his father died when he was thirteen years old. He was separated from his sister when he moved in
with his uncles. After he graduated from grade school his uncles sent him to college. While he was in college he went on a one year walking tour of
Europe. After the tour he went to France which...show more content...
That is why his wife called it The Prelude. He spent the last forty–five years of his life revising and editing it. He didn't spend his time on just The
Prelude, He also worked on and edited other poems causing him to print out various editions of the same poem.
During the time that he was editing The Prelude and working on his other poems, he was appointed as Head Laureate and married Mary Hutchinson.
Together, they had five children two of which died in 1812. As he grew older, his works began to shift from passionate lyrics to lyrics that were more
conservative. He died on April 23, 1850. His wife then published The Prelude which is considered to be the "crowning achievement of English
romanticism." (Andrews, H.. "William Wordsworth." Academy of American poets. Academy of American Poets, 2011. Web. 27 Feb 2012.) When he
was young he would spend much of his time playing outdoors with his sister. Dorothy would often comment on the beauty of the surrounding
landscape. It was because of his sister that he grew to love nature. His love for nature led him to write the first romantic poetry of that time period and
started the Romantic Movement in England. Many of his poems were written about the nature that he encountered in his daily life. Others were of
experiences in which he felt great emotion. One of these poems is It is a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free. In this poem it is believed that he is
talking about

William Wordsworth Poetry Analysis
Individual Powers: Reflection, Imagination, and Feeling gives the poet, William Wordsworth, a chance to reflect upon his life. He writes this renown
piece of literature at a time that the world is rapidly changing and shifting. Wordsworth is able to extract himself from hectic society, slow down, and
absorb his surroundings while portraying central components of true romantic poetry in his piece. The poem was written toward the end of the 18th
century, during the Romantic period. Romanticism emphasized emotion, individualism and glorification of the past and of nature. It was an artistic,
literary, musical and intellectual movement that reacted to and rebelled against major events going on in the world at the time, such as the Industrial
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Wordsworth describes how much his life and observations have changed in the past five years since his last visit to the river Rye, creating a course
of reflections to take place in his mind. He reflects the past to the present while revisiting this place. He discovers that from reflecting on natures
beauty, human awareness and restoration arises, especially when the soul is in dire need. He reinforces the idea that he has once been here before and
through his reflections, he remembers the beautiful parts of nature from his first visit. He is secluded and is in a serene environment, reflecting and
meditating upon the beauties of nature. As the poem progresses, he hopes that in the near future, he will reflect back on the memories of his present
experiences in a positive manner.Again, he starts to have flashbacks of when he first visited. These flashbacks of nature lead to internal reflections of
the past. Clearly nature has impacted him in strong ways, which leads to constant reflection from the past to the present. Wordsworth can no longer
experience what he once has because over time the scenery has changed and it is not the same, however, he can still reflect on these past moments and
relive them through his memory, and imagination.
The power of

William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's Use of Literary Devices Related to Nature William Wordsworth's frequent references to nature in his poetry shows that he paid close
attention to the details of the physical environment around him. His poetry relates to nature by focusing primarily on the relationship between inner
life with the outer world. William Wordsworth usesliterary devices such as personification, similes, and the impressions nature makes on him to show
the importance of the relationship that man should have with nature. Personification is used to make it easier for his readers to relate themselves to
nature. The use of similes demonstrates the importance of experiencing nature as if it were oneself because it allows one to experience nature on a
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In this poem, he extends that idea to show peaceful reflections on nature enable one to enjoy the "bliss of solitude" and experience true happiness.
Another example of simile used by Wordsworth comes from "Tintern Abbey":
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led;
...
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite; a feeling and a love. (The Poems 359)
In this poem, Wordsworth uses a simile by indicate he is "like a roe". He imagines himself wandering through the mountains experiencing nature on a
different level–like a deer would–without a goal but rather, wandering wherever nature leads, This demonstrates how nature can have different effects
through the use of imagination if we are willing to pause our actions from day to day and take time to contemplate on our surroundings. Deep
contemplation clears the mind and allows one to imagine a journey through nature–not just through nature, but as a living part of nature. Through this
experience nature became "An appetite; a feeling and a love" for him. His total immersion in nature leads to him becoming one with nature, thus
showing the value of an intimate relationship between man and nature. Impression, the personal effect of some experience, real or imagined, is a third

Critical Appreciation Of William Wordsworth
Author Background: Born April 7th 1770 in Cockermouth, England, William Wordsworth grew up without his mother after the age of 8, and he grew
to love poetry at the Hawkshead Grammar School. Wordsworth revolutionized literature with his philosophy that humans become more corrupt as
they get older, losing their naivete in their perception of the world and nature around them. Wordsworth was one of the most influential nature poets
in England, and he worshipped nature in his poems as a more superior entity for humans to learn from and look up to. Paraphrase: The world is too
overwhelming for us to appreciate. We waste our powers on earning and spending and we overlook the value of nature. We have sold our hearts away
and see nothing in...show more content...
Structure: This poem is a Petrarchan sonnet, and while it also consists of 14 lines, unlike a Shakespearean sonnet, a Petrarchan sonnet consist of an
octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines). While there is no official rhyme scheme for a Petrarchan sonnet, this poem has a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA
in the octave and CDCDCD in the sestet. The octave in this poem identifies a greater issue with the faults in people's obsession with materialism, and
it shifts in focus to the sestet, in which he declares his own actions of giving up on humanity. The rhyme scheme of the poem puts emphasis on words
ending in an –oon sound, which creates a rhythm and bridge between all his examples of how humans are losing touch in nature. This rhythm is further
enhanced by the parallelism comparing "This Sea" to "The winds" and between Proteus and Triton, which are all references to nature. Lines 1–8 of the
first octave introduce the issue of this disconnection with nature, suggesting his hopelessness in humanity, and he conveys this tone of helplessness
through words such as "lay waste" and "howling". During this octave, he emphasizes the sea, winds, and flowers of nature in order to emphasize the
things people have began to neglect. The tone shifts when it reaches 9–14 of the sestet to less emphasis on nature and more on his personal conflict,
accepting the outcome of humanity, and he uses this section as closure for himself, resolving his own

The poem was written in the year 1802. It was first published in Poems in Two Volumes, in
1807. The very starting line of the poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" informs the poet's
profound sentiments of being left alone. It was actually the death of his brother John that led him
to "loneliness". We should remind the readers that this poem was not a result of imagination.
Dorothy, Wordsworth's sister provides us an explanation of the occasion which inspired
Wordsworth to produce this masterpiece:–
"When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to
waterside." Thus the poem is a result of actual visualization rather than imagery".
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Setting of the Poem:
Wordsworth may be at discomfort in human multitude but not amidst the objects (crowd) of
Nature. Nature permeates the entire poem. Phrases like a crowd, a host, continuous as the stars,
they stretched in never–ending lines, ten thousands saw eye at a glance presents deep
implications. The poet says: I wondered lonely as a cloud that floats on the high o'er Wales and

hills. Daffodils, an everyday found flower has been portrayed in magical verses and blended with
transcendental romanticism. Even the daffodils outdid the sparkling waves in glee and left an
everlasting mark in the mind of the readers of this poem.
THEMES:
HAPPINESS:
"I wandered lonely as a Cloud" is a poem that just makes you feels good about life. It says that
even when you are by yourself and lonely and missing your friends, you can use your
imagination o fine new friends in the world around you.
MAN AND NATURAL WORLD:
Wordsworth is the granddaddy of all nature poets and he is in top form in "I wandered lonely as
a
Cloud." In her journal entry about the day in question, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy wrote about
their surprise at findings so many daffodils in such a strange place, next to a lake and under some

William Wordsworth's Use of Nature Essay
William Wordsworth's Use of Nature
William Wordsworth was known as the poet of nature. He devoted his life to poetry and used his feeling for nature to express him self and how he
evolved.
Wordsworth had two simple ideas that he put into his writing of poetry. One was that "poetry was the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." The
second idea was that poets should describe simple scenes of nature in the everyday words, which in turn would create an atmosphere through the use of
imagination (Compton 2).
Wordsworth is deeply involved with the complexities of nature and human reaction to it. To Wordsworth nature is the revelation ofgod through viewing
everything that is harmonious or beautiful in nature. Man's true...show more content...
In the poem "Stray Pleasures" Wordsworth writes about spring and things that are visible in spring. The showers of the Spring Rouse the birds, and
they sing; If the wind do but stir for his proper delight, Each leaf, that and this, his neighbor will kiss; Each wave, one and t'other, speeds after his
brother: They are happy, for that is their right!
In the previous passage Wordsworth touches several different aspects of nature. Wordsworth writes of leaves, rain and waves. These things are
typically considered nature, but things such as the birds are typically not. This is what Wordsworth does so wonderfully, considered everything a
part of nature and conveys this to the reader. Another talent that Wordsworth has is convincing the reader that everything is alive. Ordinarily the
reader would consider such things as showers a part of nature but not alive. Wordsworth gives nature to things that are not nature and life to things
that are not alive. He writes of the waves as they come in to shore and as one crashes another one follows. He calls the second one the brother to the
first. This is amazing use of words and imagery. The reader is able to view the waves following each other and rolling one after the other. Wordsworth
gives the waves life like characteristics by referring to them as siblings. This technique is called personification. Wordsworth uses personification
throughout

Biography of William Wordsworth
Throughout history, there have numerous poets who have had grand influences on the future of literature. Many poets have different writing styles
and themes, but nevertheless, they often share various similarities within their work. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Keats can be seen as some of the
most comparable people in both their personal lives and literary works. There are three specific poems, one from each poet that can be related to one
another. There is: Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Tennyson's "In Memoriam,
A.H.H." Wordsworth, Keats, and Tennyson never rationalize, argue, or preach; they carefully craft every word to maximize a reader's understanding of
the experience by absorbing the reader into the poem itself. Each poem has various philosophical truths that the reader has to ultimately discover on his
or her own and learn about immortality and the effects of it upon human perception. Even though these poets differ in their messages, their styles and
themes of writings can be linked together.
William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and was a Romantic poet that helped launch the era ofRomanticism in English literature. Wordsworth's mother
died when he was a young child and this experience had a significant amount of influence in his later literary works. Wordsworth studied at St. John's
College in Cambridge, but before he graduated, he went to tour Europe, which in turn shaped and influenced his writings

Introduction Psalm 19 reads, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands...Their message has gone out
to the whole earth, and their words to the ends of the world" (Psalm 19:1, 4 [CSB]). These verses describe how God's creation reveals the Father to
those who encounter it. Romans 1:20 echoes this truth: "For [God's] invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly
seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made" [CSB]. Creation points humans back to its Creator, giving them a
glimpse of God's character. People can begin to understand Him better as they learn more about nature and how it functions. Whenever one stands in
awe of the Lord's creation, he is really in awe of the Lord and of His work, though he may not realize it. William Wordsworth's poem, "Composed upon
Westminster Bridge," is an example of one's reaction to the nature that surrounds him. Wordsworth gazed upon God's expressions of His nature, and
whether he realized it or not, the poet stood truly amazed at its Creator, not the creation itself.
Wordsworth was an English poet who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He, with a few of his good friends, "helped create a much more
spontaneous and emotional poetry" which "[depicted] the beauty of nature and the quintessential depth of human emotion." He was a pivotal character
who guided the direction of English poetry and brought an entirely new dimension to its writing style (Pettinger 2010). "Composed upon Westminster
Bridge," one of Wordsworth's more well–known poems, was written in 1802 in sonnet form, with one fourteen–line stanza. This poem was inspired by
Wordsworth's view from Westminster Bridge. It captures his experience with creation's beauty, majesty, and serenity and can also point others to that of
the Lord's.
Beauty
While overlooking the city on the Westminster Bridge, Wordsworth was struck by the beauty of the view. In his poem he says, "Earth has not
anything to show more fair: / Dull would he be of soul who could pass by." He believes that this sight is the most beautiful thing on the planet, and one
cannot simply pass it by. The beauty of this view catches

Essay on Wordsworth's Poetry
The Romantic thinking was influenced by the ideas upon poet and poetry sustained by three of the greatest writers of the age: William Wordsworth,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Percy Byshe Shelley.
In the Preface of the second edition of Lyrical Ballads Wordworth sustained that the poet "is a man speaking to men– a man (it is true) endued with
more sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has greater knowledge of human nature, and more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be
the common among mankind"; a man who can delight other men in the spirit of life."
The poetry has a purpose: "Not that I mean to say that I always began to write with a distinct purpose formally conceived, but I also believe that my
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The emotion which the poet recollects reduces in him the necessary state or mood or tention in which Wordsworth sees the prerequisite of poetic
composition and at the same time an essential constituent of the poem. In dicussing this question, however, Wordsworth makes no reference to the part
played by imagination and fancy in the process, though at the beginning of the Preface he speaks of the colouring of imagination cast on the incidents
and situations described in his poems.
The theory of poetic composit on developed by Wordsworth in the Preface, including his view on the language of poetry, was explicity aimed at
exploding the traditional, neoclassic, concept of poetic diction, that is, of the view that the very nature of poetry demands a linguistic expression
sharply differentiated from prose style not only through meter and rhyme, but also a special lexis, syntactic arrangement and imagery. It was therefore,
like his creation itself, part of the revolution which he had set about to effect the English poetry and critical thought. At the same Preface was meant to
defend his own poetic practice and forestall criticism of the often prosaic language he had used in some of his poems in the collection. It is that very
practice that Wordsworth adduces as evidence that rhyme and meter are not in themselves sufficient to create a significant

Essay about William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth in Cumberland, England. His poetry, and especially his poems on solitude, must have
been heavily influenced by the death of his mother and the splitting up of his family when he was only eight (Kilvert 1). At that time, fate sent him to
live in Hawkshead, England, where his teacher started him writing poetry. Wordsworth got his higher education at Cambridge, his memories of which
play a part in his later poetry (Noyes 201). Fate again stepped in when, as a young man, he received an inheritance, which gave him the freedom to
study literature. One might guess that this is when he first became part of the Romantic movement, (Pinion, 21).
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Martha was in love with Stephen, who betrayed her by marrying another woman. Martha was pregnant by Stephen, and the rumor was that she had
murdered her baby. The reader feels all her pain when she cries, "Oh misery! oh misery! Oh woe is me! oh misery!" These words express her
heartbreak at losing Stephen; her anguish at finding herself pregnant; her shame at being an unwed mother; her guilt and regret for murdering her
baby; her grief over the baby's death; and her knowledge that her life is ruined. The thorn is a powerful symbol of all this misery. Just as the thorns,
Martha's appearance makes it seem as if she, too, could never have been young. She, too, is "A wretched thing forlorn." By contrast, what seems to
be the infant's grave lies in a beautiful mound of color. Of coarse, the child is innocent and its beauty is forever filled with color; but Martha's only
color is her "scarlet cloak" of shame.
The power of imagination is the theme of http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/poems/wordswor43.html "Most Sweet It Is With Uplifted Eyes." The
title, itself, is full of meaning–– when we walk with our eyes "uplifted," we are not looking at the real world around us, but are "dreaming" on the stars.
While the real world may be beautiful, it may also be very ugly and painful. However, imagination gives us the power to block out what is bad and to
create a special world. We can look inside

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