WORDSWORTH: AS A ROMANTIC POET



Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cokermouth,cumberland and spent his seventeen years in cumberland hills.He started writing from 1797 to 1799 a very short period but very important in his life and for the romantic period and from 1799 he has taken retirement from his work of writing and spent time in between the nature at northern lake region where he was born. He was very close to the nature which experience has which experience has reflected in all his poetry.

* Features of Wordsworth as Romantic poet:

* Nature:

Wordsworth's poetry embodies pantheistic qualities as he influses his world with sublime and divine qualities giving nature restorative and transformative power. Wordsworth's poems contend that manifestation of the natural world inspire spontaneity and emotions by immersing themselves in nature. 

* For example:

" I wandered lonely as a cloud".

This poem captures the beauty of nature and it's transformative effects on the emotions of those surrounded by such beauty. 

In this title "clouds " to highlight nature's ability to share and placate the loneliness of humans.

" I wandered lonely as a cloud

Thatcfliats on higher vales and hills,

When all at once I shaw a crowd,

A host of golden daffodils; 

Beside the lake  , beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

* Solitude:

As discussed in The Norton Anthology, Wordsworth's imagination is typically stimulated by the "sudden apparition of a single figure stark and solitary against a natural background. "Poetry is portrayed as the individuality of the poet's vision.

Example:

" The Solitary Reaper"

" The Solitary Reaper" describes a pastoral scene in Scottish highlands in the titular Reaper sings a Gaelic song while working alone.By employing present tense and plain diction which depict her "reaping" as "cuts and binds the grain", The hardworking of the girl emphasised.

"Behold her,single in the field,

Solitary Highland Lass! 

Reaping and singing by herself stop here or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen! For the vale profound 

Is overflowing with the sound".


* childhood:

Wordsworth promotes the image of an idealized Romantic child and laments the passage from childhood splendour and transition to adulthood may catalyse a sacrifice of purity and divinity.

Example:

" My heart leaps up when I Behold."

Natural deduction and " natural piety" are regarded as highly significant in Wordsworth's poetry and the ode " My heart leaps up when I behold " demonstrate that the perceptions and feelings of childhood have peculiar value.

" My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky;

So was it when my life began 

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old or let me die! 

The child is father of the Man!

And I could wish my days to be 

Bound each to each by natural piety."

* Past memories:

Wordsworth also accentuates the pivotal role that memory plays in shaping the human psyche.past memories or "Emotions recollected in tranquility "provide individuals with solace and comfort in times of uncertainty. 

Example:

* Travelling 

* Tintern Abbey 

*Elegiac stanzas 


* Industrialization:

William Wordsworth expressed concern for the commercialization of England spurred by the Industrial Revolution and the desire for material wealth. He laments human's destruction of nature and the growing distance between men and the natural world. 

Example:

London 1802

Wordsworth's poetry serves as a polemic of consumerism and materialism catalysed by increasing Industrialization. The sonnet " London 1802" critiques English men obsession with material comfort and selfish pursuits. Wordsworth's desire for change is epitomizes through the statement of " England hath need of thee" as the apostrophises "Milton!"

Thus, We can say that William Wordsworth is well known Romantic poet. 

* Visit of Victoria park:

During the Unit of Wordsworth and Coleridge, we visited Victoria park of Bhavnagar.  We learnt lot's of thing from nature. We enjoyed there.Here I put some beautiful nature pictures;







We done some activities. I wrote one poetry in Victoria park;



In this Visit I aware about my self, skills and another things. Thank you so much to Megha ma'am and prakruti ma'am for this Visit.

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