Equally important in the poetic life of Wordsworth was his meeting with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Arch in While the poems themselves are some of the most influential in Western literature, it is the preface to the second edition that remains one of the most important testaments to a poet's views on both his craft and his place in the world. In the preface Wordsworth writes on the need for "common speech" within poems and argues against the hierarchy of the period which valued epic poetry above the lyric.
Wordsworth's most famous work, The Prelude Edward Moxon, , is considered by many to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism. The poem, revised numerous times, chronicles the spiritual life of the poet and marks the birth of a new genre of poetry.
Although Wordsworth worked on The Prelude throughout his life, the poem was published posthumously. Wordsworth spent his final years settled at Rydal Mount in England, travelling and continuing his outdoor excursions.
Devastated by the death of his daughter Dora in , Wordsworth seemingly lost his will to compose poems. National Poetry Month. Materials for Teachers Teach This Poem. Poems for Kids. Poetry for Teens. Lesson Plans. Resources for Teachers. Academy of American Poets. American Poets Magazine. In order to make profit, they developed industry which ruined the purity and tranquility of nature.
Living in the crowded and noisy society, Wordsworth felt greatly miserable. Only in nature, can he find beauty and purity going into his own thinking. Natural world is his ideal word. The great neoclassic writers dealt with men as members of an organized, usually an urban, society; of this society the author regarded himself as an integral part, its highest standards were those he spoke for. As the worshiper of nature Wordsworth made a major departure in this respect.
In such a lonely state Wordsworth got close to the nature. His mind and heart became pure and free from the bitterness and the trouble of the human society. In fact they are meditative poems, in which the presented scene usually serves to raise an emotional problem or personal crisis.
Their development and resolution constitute the organizing principle of the poem. In other poems, we can see his communication with nature and her powerful effect upon his thoughts and emotions.
Wordsworth also is much more than a mere reporter of surface beauties. Through his meditation in his poems we can clearly see his attitude towards the great changes of the society and the newly appearance of the bourgeois during the declining of the feudal system. Wordsworth loves nature as well as human being. He made the most proper combination between his love of man and love of nature in his works.
He entrusted his love of man on the love of nature and in return, his love of natural scenery and the life of the people living in nature. He not only wrote so many poems but also developed his own outstanding theory on poetic creation. In a large number of his poems, Wordsworth revealed his true compassion and love for the sufferings of the poor and the unfortunate.
All the above is what the nature tells Wordsworth and what Wordsworth tells the readers through his natural poems. Although stern, he thinks duty is also graceful and divinely beautiful, if performed with a greater purpose. Composed in itself, the poem is a medium that Wordsworth uses to reprimand his fellow English people for becoming selfish and morally stagnant.
He eulogises seventeenth-century poet John Milton and explains how Milton could improve the present situation of England if he was alive. Written in , the sonnet was composed to depict the beauty of London in the early morning light. While standing on the Westminster Bridge, the poet admires the early morning serenity of his surroundings, which will eventually be destroyed by the industrial activities during the day. Please Click Here to subscribe other newsletters that may interest you, and you'll always find stories you want to read in your inbox.
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