Wordsworth and Shelley: New Romantic Radicalism versus Old…1
The French revolution gave birth to various principles and ideologies that promised a golden future ahead. The golden age had manifestly refused to become historical fact. People’s hope had turned into a bloodbath. Rieder (1985) states The poet must fall into a deep fascination with the precursor's work in order to become a poet, but must also overcome and master that work in order to achieve an autonomous voice, which takes this to be a fundamentally accurate description of Shelley's relationship to Wordsworth, Atheist believes that we no longer need god and his gracius promise of love and forgiveness. Rational believes autonomous men …show more content…
The tension between poetic and political ambition in these two poets reflects the class struggle. For which pushes Shelley to abandon didacticism and to displace the confrontation of rich and poor, oppressor and the oppressed. "Wordsworth tells of what all seek, and tells of it at its truest and best source. Wordsworth's poetry, when he is at his best, is inevitable, as inevitable as Nature herself, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power." (Rieder, 1985)
The term “pantheism” was derived from the term “pantheist”, which literally means a person who believes in no other eternal being but the universe. Since most of the works of William Wordsworth express and support this ideology, it can be said that he was a pantheist. The root word is derived from the Greek words “pan” meaning “all” and “theos” meaning “God”. (Yamemon, 2012)
This marks the beginning of a perceptive and rather cool discussion of Shelley's symbols of transcendent reality, through which his quest for permanence was pursued. Wordsworth's view of the human mind as creator and receiver both worked, but in alliance with the works which it he held. (Tones, …show more content…
At the same, however, he recognizes nature’s merciless potential. According to Shelley, nature is at once splendorous and deadly, a dynamic force that cannot be tamed by man. He advises to view nature from both sides, admiring its unapproachable synthesis of power and grace. He was an atheist, a fact which certainly contributd to his vision of nature as powerfully indifferent entity. On the other hand, for Wordsworth, nature plays a more comforting role. Like Shelly, Wordsworth sees nature as an eternal and sublime entity, but rather than threatening the poet, these qualities give Wordsworth comfort.Rather than palcing man nature in opposition he views them as complementary elements of whole, recognizing man as a part of nature. With faith of religion to back him up, he was able to look at nature and see the benevolence of god behind it. (Drummond,
The French revolution gave birth to various principles and ideologies that promised a golden future ahead. The golden age had manifestly refused to become historical fact. People’s hope had turned into a bloodbath. Rieder (1985) states The poet must fall into a deep fascination with the precursor's work in order to become a poet, but must also overcome and master that work in order to achieve an autonomous voice, which takes this to be a fundamentally accurate description of Shelley's relationship to Wordsworth, Atheist believes that we no longer need god and his gracius promise of love and forgiveness. Rational believes autonomous men …show more content…
The tension between poetic and political ambition in these two poets reflects the class struggle. For which pushes Shelley to abandon didacticism and to displace the confrontation of rich and poor, oppressor and the oppressed. "Wordsworth tells of what all seek, and tells of it at its truest and best source. Wordsworth's poetry, when he is at his best, is inevitable, as inevitable as Nature herself, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power." (Rieder, 1985)
The term “pantheism” was derived from the term “pantheist”, which literally means a person who believes in no other eternal being but the universe. Since most of the works of William Wordsworth express and support this ideology, it can be said that he was a pantheist. The root word is derived from the Greek words “pan” meaning “all” and “theos” meaning “God”. (Yamemon, 2012)
This marks the beginning of a perceptive and rather cool discussion of Shelley's symbols of transcendent reality, through which his quest for permanence was pursued. Wordsworth's view of the human mind as creator and receiver both worked, but in alliance with the works which it he held. (Tones, …show more content…
At the same, however, he recognizes nature’s merciless potential. According to Shelley, nature is at once splendorous and deadly, a dynamic force that cannot be tamed by man. He advises to view nature from both sides, admiring its unapproachable synthesis of power and grace. He was an atheist, a fact which certainly contributd to his vision of nature as powerfully indifferent entity. On the other hand, for Wordsworth, nature plays a more comforting role. Like Shelly, Wordsworth sees nature as an eternal and sublime entity, but rather than threatening the poet, these qualities give Wordsworth comfort.Rather than palcing man nature in opposition he views them as complementary elements of whole, recognizing man as a part of nature. With faith of religion to back him up, he was able to look at nature and see the benevolence of god behind it. (Drummond,