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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Stylistic Distinctions with Spiritual Resemblance In Lyrical Ballads 1798, it is easy to distinguish the poems composed by William Wordsworth from the ones composed by Samuel Coleridge. This is not out of their divergent views, but rather, a result of their characteristic poetic styles and distinctive writing subjects. Coleridge himself gives an account of this: These are the poetry of nature… composed of two sorts… It was agreed that my endeavours should be directed…

About the Speaker The writer of the sonnet How Soon Hath Time and the speaker is John Milton. He is one of the famous English poets of the Romantic era, a period when artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement aroused. This sonnet is composed in Petrarchan style, similar to William Shakespeare’s sonnets. John Milton wrote “How soon hath Time” (Sonnet 7) on his 23rd birthday. The title is interrelated with the event because time has added to Milton’s age, and made him old –…

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an “ancient Mariner” stops an innocent Wedding-Guest in the midst of his procession into the wedding hall with his “glittering eye,” and begins to tell the young man a story about a ship and the disastrous journey the Mariner takes. A theme of storytelling develops throughout the poem, and the moral of the story conveys that: “Storytelling, if the rhetoric is robust enough, can propagandize the victim, and make him or her perceive…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, used many obsolete words and spellings throughout this particular poem. The word “rime” is referred as an old ancient man or ancient mariner and also “mariner” is referred as someone that works on the ship, seaman, or workmen. This poem was encounter on a ship that was on water. Mainly, Mariner encountered their journey to the Antarctic. The albatross is a symbol of bird or sign of innocence to guide the rimes and mariners…

William Wordsworth’s Concept of Power The term “power” is multifaceted; it lends itself to myriad interpretations and cannot be defined easily. There is no unanimous concept of power, as what is seen as “powerful” differs from person to person. The use of the term “power” is prominent in many of William Wordsworth’s poems. “Tintern Abbey,” “The Prelude,” and “Michael” all feature the term. From the prominence of the term in Wordsworth’s poetry, it is evident that Wordsworth thought highly of…

Introduction to Author Oscar Wilde was a Anglo- English author, playwright, novelist, critic and poet. He was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England, known for his brilliant wit, flamboyant style. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes. This doctrine can be clearly summarized by the phrase ‘art for art’s sake’. In 1890, he…

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was an eminent English Romantic Poet, hose Lyrical Ballad, as a result of joint efforts, co-authoring with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Contributed to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature. He is known as the poet of Nature, reflecting his inner feelings while appreciating the wonderings and beauty of it. (Norton, 543-45) The poem ‘We Are Seven’, as Wordsworth says, has been “written an Alfoxden in the spring of 1798. The little girl who is the heroine I met…

In this poem, William Wordsworth expresses the beauty he sees in nature and shows the love he has for his daughter. In the octave, the writer describes the evening as he walks along a shoreline. To him, the evening is a time of calmness, allowing one to delve into their own spirituality, an opportunity to become closer to God. His mention of a nun automatically signifies purity and religiosity, leading to divinity. He is awed by the magnitude of nature, hence the praise. The descriptions are…

Maine Historical Society Website.” Longfellow: The Village Blacksmith, Ballads and Other Poems, 30 May 2017, www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=38. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Paul Revere's Ride.” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, 9 June 2017, www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/paul-reveres-ride. Longfellow, Henry Wordsworth. “HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA Maine Historical Society Website.” Longfellow: The Village Blacksmith, Ballads and Other Poems, 30 May 2017,…

Many poets will express their perspectives or nauture in various ways. In the poems, “Ode to enchanted Light” by Pablo Neruda and “Sleeping in the Forest” by Mary Oliver, the poets utilize similar and contrasting key elements to express their views of the beauties and powers of nature. In “Ode to enchanted Light,” Pablo Neruda touches upon the beauties of light and appreciation for the nature that surrounds us, through the use of figuative language, theme, symbolism, and mood/tone. Mary Oliver…