William Wordsworth

Diving into William Wordsworth’s Life Love for nature, strong emotions about life, and a wild imagination are all traits of the Romantic era. The people in the Romantic era enjoyed writing poetry about the things listed. The greatest poet of the Romanticism era is not Emily Dickinson or Walter Scott, even though they are great too, but it is William Wordsworth. Wordsworth is known as the Father of the Romanticism period. He has many famous literary works such as The Prelude, “I Wander Lonely…

William Wordsworth grew up during an age of revolution. He was born in England in 1770 to a farming family. By the age of thirteen he was orphaned, so he understood the hardships that afflicted the lower classes. He could not help but be touched by the spirit of the times. As a young man, after grammar school, he went on a tour of Europe. This gave him a perspective that many others did not share considering most individuals during this time never travelled very far from the homes they were…

William Wordsworth believes “The World” is too awesome for us to appreciate it. As people become concerned about time and money that they let their powers go to waste. As time goes by they want to begin to accumulate things, in due time that is when nature becomes nonexistent. This sonnet offers us an angry outline and gives us a pretentious attitude on how far the nineteenth century was living from a Wordsworth ideal. It disgusts him because nature is so delightedly available, it somewhat calls…

What is nature? Is it just tree or is it a place to find inter peace? In "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth he used the literary devices paradox, personification, and metaphors . To help understand how humans have lost connection with nature. Wordsworth uses paradox by writing " we have given are hearts away a sordid boon"(4). He uses sordid which means dirty bad idea basically something that isn't right. He also uses boon means a gift or something that is given. The…

ESSAY ON : WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S “LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING” R omanticism was an intellectual and artistic movement that started in the eighteenth century and reached its peak during the nineteenth century. The most prominent standards of Romanticism focused on expressing the human social status, the glorification of nature, childhood and spontaneity of primitive forms of society (before it becomes affected with the lust for wealth during the period of the industrial revolution.) also…

Muir faces dangers in his path to get to the flower, and Wordsworth stumbles upon these flowers while walking around in nature. They also use techniques, like diction, tone, and syntax in their writing to help effectively make the reader read all the way through…

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…

In the poem “The World is Too Much with Us”, William Wordsworth depends on his usage of imagery to display the beauty, grace, and power of nature in all of its forms. Wordsworth’s imagery personifies nature so that man is able to identify each of the elements as a character. He does so by his description of the ocean, his reflection on the wind, and his allusion to Greek gods associated with nature. The poem’s imagery begins when Wordsworth compares the ocean to a beautiful woman. When the sea…

major contrast from the Neoclassical era before it. Romanticism also led the way to future counterculture movements we see throughout history as the rejection of the normal first started by the Romantics. We see Romanticism at work in poetry such as William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems, in art such as Caspar David Friedrich 's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, and in modern day equivalents such as Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. Romanticism is quite noticeable in many writings…

style. In his poem I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth writes about a walk he took with his sister in the area of the Lake District, close to where he was born and place that strongly influenced his love for nature. Here…