The Romantic era in English literature generated an entire new realm of language, poetry, and thematic sources for new works and writers. Great writers from this time period included William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth, to name a few (Baugh).William Wordsworth is still very well known today for his simplistic language and thematic style of writing, especially that in poetry. The “Father of Romanticism” as some critics say, William Wordsworth creates a Godlike image of nature throughout his poems “Calm is All Nature as a Resting Wheel,” “Daffodils,” and “The World is Too Much with Us.”
Although Romanticism is associated with love stories today, this was not the connection people made with it centuries ago. Romanticism …show more content…
In Wordsworth’s “Calm is All Nature as a Resting Wheel,” feelings of suppression, anguish, and gratitude for nature are the main focus. The poem starts out by addressing the setting that Wordsworth is talking about and also his emotions at the time. The poem tells that this was most likely while taking a walk on a dark and starless night. Wordsworth expresses that chores through the day are only distractions from being emotionally unhappy. “Those busy cares that would allay my pain.” Although Wordsworth never fully tells us the pain to which he is referring it isn’t really …show more content…
Although he did spend time in France during the French Revolution, it pushed him away from society and gave him distaste for humanity. These feelings ultimately led him to writing in the Lake District, “the cradle of Romantics,” poems such as, “Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel,” “Daffodils,” and “The World is Too Much with Us.” Wordsworth used a comparison of nature being Godlike in his writing because it gave him the greatest inspiration of anything else. Christians most of the time would say that God is our greatest inspiration and that everything we do is because of God, and for Wordsworth this was natures
Although Romanticism is associated with love stories today, this was not the connection people made with it centuries ago. Romanticism …show more content…
In Wordsworth’s “Calm is All Nature as a Resting Wheel,” feelings of suppression, anguish, and gratitude for nature are the main focus. The poem starts out by addressing the setting that Wordsworth is talking about and also his emotions at the time. The poem tells that this was most likely while taking a walk on a dark and starless night. Wordsworth expresses that chores through the day are only distractions from being emotionally unhappy. “Those busy cares that would allay my pain.” Although Wordsworth never fully tells us the pain to which he is referring it isn’t really …show more content…
Although he did spend time in France during the French Revolution, it pushed him away from society and gave him distaste for humanity. These feelings ultimately led him to writing in the Lake District, “the cradle of Romantics,” poems such as, “Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel,” “Daffodils,” and “The World is Too Much with Us.” Wordsworth used a comparison of nature being Godlike in his writing because it gave him the greatest inspiration of anything else. Christians most of the time would say that God is our greatest inspiration and that everything we do is because of God, and for Wordsworth this was natures