Exploration of the philosophical part of life has been a very common thing for poets in the past. They love to play mind tricks through their poems that have a deeper meaning of life. They always try to play it off in some simple word play, but there is actually an insanely deeper meaning to the poem. Nine times out of ten it deals with life in some way. It usually will try to teach a lesson of some sort, or maybe even give some insight to how you should treat life. The author William Wordsworth is a lyrical genius when it comes to his poetry. He says some extremely simple things that have this crazy deep meaning. He always uses his words so that it may seem fairly simple, but there is so much complexity in the poems. He is often known for …show more content…
No doubt that in life there will be pain and sorrow, it is a natural part to life. What he suggests though, is that how you handle it and dwell on it, is completely up to you. You can either choose to sit and sulk upon everything, or you can realize that life is short and be happy no matter what. He says, “If this be but a vain belief, yet, oh! How oft – in darkness and amid the many shapes of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir unprofitable, and the fever of the world, have hung upon the beatings of my heart – how oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, o sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods, how often has my spirit turned to thee!” (Lines 49-57) He shows here that he has gone through the tough times, and that things have sat on his heart and slowly crushed it. No matter what though he decided that he needed to be happy. He realized there was no reason to dwell on hurtful things and be depressed your whole life. There was no need for it, he realized the importance of life and just how short his time …show more content…
Wordsworth is using something so simple, just revisiting a place, to make some suggestions and insights on life. Going back over the important messages to the poem is first that imagination can restore our minds to a healthy and happy state. Second thing is that just a few happy memories can get us through the rough times in life. Last and one of the most monumental one to me is that happiness is a choice. There will be plenty of times that life knocks you down, but whether or not you stand up, is completely up to you. This is why I say that he is a lyrical genius, his use of such a simple incident, can give such and incredible amount of insight to life. William Wordsworth was one of the most incredible Romantic poets of his
...d one of the greatest modern poems, you can probably tell why, it has such meaning behind all of its curtains, with messages spilling out. A plethora of them are shown, but the main being, that people of his day need to regain their faith so instead of just scarecrows of straw they actually mean something with their soul intact, another being the complete worthlessness that has bestowed upon the people of this earth they are more concerned with material things instead of who they are as a person, and finally how just a small child’s nursery rhyme can hit home and foreshadow for the future if there is not change coming. The world is a terrible conniving place but the afterlife is where everything matters, the position you put yourself in life, is the position you will stay in death. And nobody wants to be in the middle.
In his poem, 'Lines Written in the Early Spring,' William Wordsworth gives us insight into his views of the destruction of nature. Using personification, he makes nature seem to be full of life and happy to be living. Yet, man still is destroying what he sees as 'Nature's holy plan'; (8).
One of the most popular American poets is Walt Whitman. Whitman’s poetry has become a rallying cry for Americans, asking for individuality, self-approval, and even equality. While this poetry seems to be truly groundbreaking, which it objectively was, Whitman was influenced by the writings of others. While Whitman may not have believed in this connection to previous authors, critics have linked him to Emerson, Poe, and even Carlyle. However, many critics have ignored the connection between Walt Whitman and the English writer William Wordsworth. A major proponent of Romanticism, Wordsworth’s influence can be seen in Whitman 's poetry through a Romantic connection. Despite differences in form, one can see William Wordsworth’s influence on Walt
‘It is often suggested that the source for many of William Wordsworth’s poems lies in the pages of Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal. Quite frequently, Dorothy describes an incident in her journal, and William writes a poem about the same incident, often around two years later.’ It is a common observation that whilst Dorothy is a recorder – ‘her face was excessively brown’ – William is a transformer – ‘Her skin was of Egyptian brown’ . The intertextuality between The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals and ‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’ allows both Dorothy and William to write about the same event, being equally as descriptive, but in very differing ways. Dorothy writes in a realist ‘log-book’ like style, whereas William writes in a romantic ballad style. This can be very misleading, as it gives William’s work more emotional attachment even though his work is drawn upon Dorothy’s diary, which in its turn is very detached, including little personal revelation. When read in conjunction with William’s poetry, Dorothy’s journal seems to be a set of notes written especially for him by her. In fact, from the very beginning of the journals Dorothy has made it quite clear that she was writing them for William’s ‘pleasure’ . This ties in with many of the diary entries in which she has described taking care of William in a physical sense. In a way this depicts the manner in which William uses his sister’s journal to acquire the subject of his poetry, which makes it seem as though Dorothy is his inspiration.
William Wordsworth's Expostulation and Reply and Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known William Wordsworth is well known for his great works of poetry, spawned from his unique idea of how good poetry should be written. Wordsworth was a firm believer in using simple language, and more importantly emphasized the need to have a reflective component to his poetry. As a result of his writing poetry in the Romantic era, elements such as nature and spirituality have a more profound effect on the poem. In two of his own poems, “Expostulation and Reply” and “Strange fits of passion have I known,” Wordsworth demonstrates the use of nature and spirituality combined with his more reflective style to create stunning poetry.
Everyone loves a good song. Whether it be new or old, there are different people who have their preferences on what kind of song they like. Does this same observation go along with poetry as well? Many young people like the genre of music called rap. Rap is actually an acronym for “Rhythm and Poetry”. There is also the man named Shakespeare, who wrote plays for entertainment. However, just like how older people would not come to like and appreciate rap music, it is hard for younger people to come to appreciate literature. Smith describes this as “the quotations and snippets from letters, histories, ballads, and propaganda that cut across the poetry are retained in the new compilation, and the overall effect suggests a modernist symphony.” (Smith) There are going to be people who complain about how poetry has changed. Woolf makes the argument that the new and ever evolving poetry is
Throughout the poem, the poet presents an overall meaning. The main meaning is that nature can bring happiness when it’s needed and that its beauty should be appreciated. The speaker of this poem makes a heaven out of a windy day and a bunch of daffodils. When he felt lonely, the daffodils around him, gave him a boost of joy. The poet is implying that people have become blind to the beauty of nature that is easily accessed, which is why he focused on the visual descriptions of the daffodils. Wordsworth wanted to emphasize the importance of
Children are always portrayed in books as angelic beings that are the closest to being perfect since they are innocent and pure. Many would suggest that this is not true, that children can be just as finable as adults. They cry when they do not get their way and throw tantrums that are quite obscene. However, the idea of this angelic child did not come into play until the 18th century. The poets William Blake and William Wordsworth are the two poets that coined this idea of the child. In the poems of these two authors, children are portrayed as innocent and pure beings and are closer to God than adults. Although these two poets have very different views of what children are like such as their interactions with adults, their perspective on
I like this poem because it shows what joy the memory can bring to the poet in times of contemplation, grief and loneliness. This poem is very touching and moving. We can see Wordsworth's use of imagery and emotion at its best. We can see that the poet holds daffodils and nature in high regard.
Moreover, searching for the different mechanics in each of these poems makes it easier for the reader to analysis and interpret them. To begin, in “The World is Too Much with Us” the way the punctuation is fit into the poem is different since there are many semicolons between each line and one period suggesting that the poem is actually one long sentence. Then I believe the speaker to be someone who acknowledges that he too has lost connection with nature since he’s been preoccupied with other things in the world. This is proven throughout the whole poem since he talks in first person using the word “I.” The tone of this poem is angry, frustrated, and dissatisfied because of how the world has changed. The rhyme scheme is also another appealing mechanic here too since Wordsworth only uses fou...
In William Wordsworth’s poems, the role of nature plays a more reassuring and pivotal r ole within them. To Wordsworth’s poetry, interacting with nature represents the forces of the natural world. Throughout the three poems, Resolution and Independence, Tintern Abbey, and Michael, which will be discussed in this essay, nature is seen prominently as an everlasting- individual figure, which gives his audience as well as Wordsworth, himself, a sense of console. In all three poems, Wordsworth views nature and human beings as complementary elements of a sum of a whole, recognizing that humans are a sum of nature. Therefore, looking at the world as a soothing being of which he is a part of, Wordsworth looks at nature and sees the benevolence of the divinity aspects behind them. For Wordsworth, the world itself, in all its glory, can be a place of suffering, which surely occurs within the world; Wordsworth is still comforted with the belief that all things happen by the hands of the divinity and the just and divine order of nature, itself.
One of the most famous poets in literary history is that of William Wordsworth. He lived between the years of 1770-1850. He was a very strong poet and many of his works have some degree of a pessimistic view to them. They could be understood after the hard life he led. He saw the French Revolution at its height and wrote several poems about it. He had an illegitimate daughter with a woman in France. When he returned back to England he married Mary Hutchinson, who gave him two sons and another daughter.
During Wordsworth time as a poet he made it his mission to have poetry be read by not only the aristocrats but also now the common man something that has never been done. In both poems Wordsworth makes his poems relatable by incorporating themes that everyone can relate to even if they haven’t personally had that experience, although both poems do differ when it comes down to structure and form but also when trying to convey a message, these poems are important because these ideas have never been done before and now even the average Joe can finally participate in a conversation about poetry and this brings two world together.
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).
His poem recognizes the ordinary and turns it into a spectacular recollection, whose ordinary characteristics are his principal models for Nature. As Geoffrey H. Hartman notes in his “Wordsworth’s poetry 1787-1814”, “Anything in nature stirs [Wordsworth] and renews in turn his sense of nature” (Hartman 29). “The Poetry of William Wordsworth” recalls a quote from the Prelude to Wordsworth’s 1802 edition of Lyrical ballads where they said “[he] believed his fellow poets should "choose incidents and situations from common life and to relate or describe them.in a selection of language really used by men” (Poetry). In the shallowest sense, Wordsworth is using his view of the Tintern Abbey as a platform or recollection, however, this ordinary act of recollection stirs within him a deeper understanding.