William Wordsworth was a prominent English Romantic poet known for his love of nature and emphasis on nature as a moral teacher. This presentation provides biographical information about Wordsworth and discusses key aspects of his work, including his views that nature has a healing power, a living personality, and that it can provide profound thoughts. It also summarizes his poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", highlighting how the beauty of daffodils overcomes the poet's loneliness and provides a strong sense of joy through their lively movement.

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2. Romanticism
&
William Wordsworth as
a poet of nature
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3. Afrin
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4. Prepared
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Monir Hossen
Lecturer
Department of English
Uttara Univesity

5. Romanticism
Learning Objects
Biography of William
Wordsworth
William Wordsworth’s
individual writing
Features of Romantic
Poetry
William Wordsworth as a
Poet of Nature.
Perfection

6. Romantic Era
Background of Romanticism
What is
Romanticism?
Salient Features of
Romantic poetry
Name of Romantic
poets
Romanticism
It
includes

7. Romanticism
Romanticism is a literary
conception and it cannot be
precisely defined by some
specific literary term. It
implies the certain literary
creation .So, Romanticism
describes the literary and
philosophical engagement of
the late 18th and 19th century.

8. The Romantic period begun with the
publication of Lyrical Ballades, a
joint work of William Wordsworth
and S.T. Coleridge .Just after ten
years of French Revolution in 1791.
Romantic Era

9. Background of Romanticism
Background of Romanticism means - that is influenced
by the French Revolution (1788-1789). So Romantic imagination
was united by the Watchwords of ----
Liberty Equality Fraternity

10. 1st generation
In the 1st generation we find
1) William Wordsworth
2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
These two are called the
pioneer of the romantic
poems.
3)William Black also includes
the 1st generation Romantic
poet.
2nd generation
* Percy Bysse Shelley
* Load Byron
* John Keats

11. Salient Features of Romantic Poetry
Love for Nature Glorification of Nature
Simplicity Revolutionary Zeal
Humanism Supernaturalism
Love for beauty Use of Common language
Sensuousness Common theme
Spontaneity Pantheism
Subjectivity Lyricism
Classicism Individualism
Mysticism
High
Imagination

12. Love for Nature is the most dominant
features of Romantic literature. On the
other hand, Love for Nature also
refers to return to nature. It means the
World of vegetation and human
qualities of human beings. William
Wordsworth establishes a close
kinship with nature. In “The Solitary
Reaper” , we find his close
relationship with nature. He draws
this poem about a girl who is singing
and reaping lonely in the hilly area.
Here the girl, the hill and corn fields
make a bridge between nature and
human beings.
William Wordsworth
Love for Nature

13. Love for beauty is also
known as Hellenism. It is
another salient feature of
romantic poem. Keats
sings in Endymion
“A thing of beauty is joy
forever.”
In his “ Ode on a Grecian
Urn” he particularly
mentions the beauty of
immortality by saying ---
Beauty is Truth, Truth is
beauty.
Love for beauty Subjectivity
Subjective expression is one more
features of Romanticism. In this
period poets want to present their
own feelings without hiding
themselves. For example, W.
Wordsworth in his poem “ Tintern
Abbey” presents his personal
belief in the soothing power of
nature and parental existence of
human soul by drawing the figure
of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth.

14. Common language means the
language of poem that means
poetic Diction. So, it is the
language of common life that is
use by the common men. This
language belongs in poets views
to humble and rustic life. In W.
Wordsworth Preface to lyrical
Ballads, Wordsworth professes to
have sought the use of the
language of common life. He also
asserts that there neither is nor
can be any essential difference
between the language of prose
and use.
Use of common
language or simplicity Pantheism

15. Mysticism is an
inherent literature of
Romantic Period. In
the Wordsworth’s
poems mysticism is
seen profusely. His
pantheism pervading
many of his famous
poems is actually a
reflection of this
mystic bent of mind.
S.T. Coleridge’s “the
Rime of the ancient
Mariner” is based on
his Mystic beliefs
Mysticism

17. William Wordsworth remains a standing example miracle of romantic poetry. He is the
prominent of the romantic poets. He was the pioneer of Romantic Movement. William Wordsworth was born
on April 7, 1770 in Cocker mouth, England. Unlike other major English poets, he enjoyed a happy childhood
under the loving care of his mother. He was very close to his sister Dorothy. He was fascinated by the epic
poet John Milton (1608-1674).He meets with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge at 1795.In the French
revolution he first publishes his two poetical efforts namely “An evening walk and Descriptive sketches”, in
1795 Wordsworth and Coleridge developed their friendship. In 1798, they both composed the lyrical Ballads
that raised a wall between the neo classical and romantic poems. there were 23 poems in this volume.19 by
Wordsworth and four by S.T. Coleridge. Then Wordsworth and Coleridge went to the Germany .Here
Wordsworth began “The prelude”. In 1802 with the suggestion of some friends, he published “preface to the
lyrical Ballads “in which he represents his theory of poetry and poetic diction.
Though Wordsworth is the founder of Romantic Movement but he died in 1850 A.D.
William Wordsworth (1770-
1880)

18. His major works
Simon LeeLyrical Ballads, (1798)
We Are Seven
The Tables Turned
Tintern Abbey
To The Cuckoo
The Prelude (1850)
Lines Written In Early
Spring
The Thorn
Guide To The Lakes
(1810)
Peter Ball (1819)
Preface To The
Lyrical Ballads

19. Wordsworth gives the definition of
poetry In his lyrical Ballads. He says
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings: it takes its
origin from emotion, recollected in
tranquility”.
He also defines poetry by saying,”
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit
of all knowledge; it is the
impassioned expression which is in
the countenance of all science.”
To Wordsworth, a poet is a man
“possessed more than usual organic
sensibility”.
Poetry

20. As a poet of nature, Wordsworth stands
supreme. He is a worshipper of Nature. Nature’s
devote or high priest. His love of nature was
probably truer, and tenderer than that of any
other English poet. Wordsworth has philosophical
and original view of Nature. Three points in his
creed of Nature are noted.
Its inequality & limitations.
He is deficient in the
purely lyrical gift.
Treatment of Nature.
Its egotism
William Wordsworth as a poet of nature
Nature is a living
personality
Nature has healing
power
Nature is a great
moral teacher

21. He also emphasizes that nature. Nature is a
great moral teacher. He also regards that
nature is the best mother, guardian and
nurse of a man. He believes that between
man and nature, there is mutual
consciousness. In his eyes, nature is a
teacher whose wisdom we can learn and
without which any human life is vain and
incomplete. He believes the education of
man by nature. Cazamain says, “To
Wordsworth, nature appears as a formative
influence, superior to any other, the
education of sense and mind a like, the
sower in our hearts of the deep-laden seeds
of our feelings and believes “
In the Immortality ode “he tells us that a boy
love for nature is a thoughtless passion but
when he grows up it becomes coloring in his
eyes and it gives the profound thought in his
mind .as he says
To me the meanest flower that blows can
give thoughts that do often lie.
“Too deep for tears.”
At last I can say that Wordsworth attitude to
nature can be cleanly differentiated from
that of the other great poets of nature.
Nature as a
living
personality
Nature has a
healing power
Nature is a
great moral
teacher
W. Wordsworth conceives of nature as a
living personality. He believes that there is
a divine spirit in the object of Nature. This
divine spirit of nature may be termed as a
mystical pantheism.
In his poem “ Tintern Abbey ”, we find
mystical pantheism.
In the 3rd stanza we find,
The mountain, and the deep & gloomy
wood,
Their colors and their forms, were then to
me
An appetite; a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
……………………………………..
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all
thought,
And rolls through all things.
By these lines William Wordsworth’s love
for nature becomes spiritual and
intellectual. By this, the poet comes in close
contact with the realistic of vision. This
spiritual contemplation over nature has
disciplined his mind into a quite mood of
mystic realizations. Thus he feels a
mysterious soul at nature and mind of a
man.
It means Nature gives joy to the
human heart. William
Wordsworth looks upon nature
as exercising a healing influence
on sorrow stricken hearts. In his
poem ------
“ I wondered lonely as a cloud.”
He reflects his love of nature by
figuring the picture of Daffodils
that gives his a stronger sense of
joy. He says----
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:
By these lines the poet speaks
about the beautiful sights of the
daffodils that impact on his
mind. The sparking waves of
Daffodil make his mind as an
ardent lover of nature.

22. William Wordsworth writes many poems with
the naturalistic views, Among them the poem “
I wondered lonely as cloud (daffodils)” is a
beautiful nature poem. It deals with the beauty
of the daffodils and the feelings of poets mind.
“ I wondered lonely as cloud” is a famous
poem by Wordsworth like the Prelude, Tintern
Abbey and Immortality Ode. This poem also
explains Wordworth’s view on poetic creation. It
gives his theory that the “Poetry is the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
Wordsworth’s
Individual writing

23. The poem begins with the description with the
loneliness of the poet. He walks lonely as a
cloud, floating high over vales and hills.” But
his loneliness overcomes when he comes
across the beautiful daffodils. He finds a
strong sense of joy. He seems that the
movement of golden daffodils in the gentle air
of rhythmic.
Thus he makes his mind overwhelmed with the
beauty of the daffodils.
In the 2nd stanza, he describes the poet’s
imagination by figuring the sight, color and
movement of the daffodils. The poet sees
“ Ten thousand flowers at a glance “they are
dancing in a lively manner. Thus he gives his
imaginary vision through this stanza.
In his last stanza, He describes his tranquil
moment that he recollects the scene. When
the poet spends his restful time, the beautiful
sights of the daffodils flash upon on his mental
eyes. The joy of the recollection if filled with
the same pleasure the he experienced when he
sees the daffodils.
So By analyzing the whole poem, we find the
poem is written in iambic pentameter. Every
four stanzas are arranged in the effect of
nature on the poets mind. The poet uses many
simple words and phrases. He also uses
meaning similes. So these features makes “I
wandered lonely as a cloud” one of the best
poems of Romantic poet Wordsworth.

24. Perfection
By studying the features of
Romanticism, it can be said
beyond any dispute that
Wordsworth’s main philosophy of
life is nature and it’s influence on
human life. So, William
Wordsworth has perfectly got the
crown as the pioneer of poet of
nature.