William Wordsworth is an English poet who lived from 1770 to 1850, he was born on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwest of England, he is considered as one of the greatest poet in the romantic era, which is also called the Romanticism, He was an early leader of it, Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, it emphasis upon the power and terrors of the inner imaginative life. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars give birth to a self-consciously and revolutionary movement across all the arts in Europe. Romanticism according to William Wordsworth is paying attention to the beautiful details of the environment around him in
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The rhyme scheme of each stanza is ababcc, Each line is metered in iambic pentameter, Wordsworth used this techniques to reflect the simplicity of the romantic poem, in the first line he used the word "wandering" which it means walking around without a purpose, the poet is metaphorically compared himself to a cloud "I wandered lonely as a cloud", he used personification when he described the "daffodils" as they were dancing happily, he gave them a human quality, this technique implies connection between man and nature, which is a one of Wordsworth's method in poetry, he described the "daffodils" as "golden" which is a color that attached to royalty. The poet wasn't aware of the wealth he gained from this experience until the memory flashed upon "that inward eye"/"which is the bliss of solitude", the memory of the dancing daffodils brought the pleasure to his heart when he is sad and changed his mood and this is one of the benefit of the nature according to William Wordsworth and it concludes the aim of the …show more content…
xvii). In William Wordsworth case, reading his poetry is connected to the knowledge of his private life specially the period of his life he spent in Dove Cottage, the subject of his most important poems is about his own life and experiences from childhood to adulthood, Wordsworth's poems exist in many different versions, for example, "I wandered lonely as a cloud" has three versions, this reveals more about his own way of composing his poems. The act of revision emphasis the genius of the poet and the growth of his Mind because every time he adds a stanza he adds an experience of his life to the
The rhyme scheme of each stanza is ababcc, Each line is metered in iambic pentameter, Wordsworth used this techniques to reflect the simplicity of the romantic poem, in the first line he used the word "wandering" which it means walking around without a purpose, the poet is metaphorically compared himself to a cloud "I wandered lonely as a cloud", he used personification when he described the "daffodils" as they were dancing happily, he gave them a human quality, this technique implies connection between man and nature, which is a one of Wordsworth's method in poetry, he described the "daffodils" as "golden" which is a color that attached to royalty. The poet wasn't aware of the wealth he gained from this experience until the memory flashed upon "that inward eye"/"which is the bliss of solitude", the memory of the dancing daffodils brought the pleasure to his heart when he is sad and changed his mood and this is one of the benefit of the nature according to William Wordsworth and it concludes the aim of the …show more content…
xvii). In William Wordsworth case, reading his poetry is connected to the knowledge of his private life specially the period of his life he spent in Dove Cottage, the subject of his most important poems is about his own life and experiences from childhood to adulthood, Wordsworth's poems exist in many different versions, for example, "I wandered lonely as a cloud" has three versions, this reveals more about his own way of composing his poems. The act of revision emphasis the genius of the poet and the growth of his Mind because every time he adds a stanza he adds an experience of his life to the