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Title: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)


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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)

• Grand Poets Quest for Nature character
• for His Self?

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Note Sentimentality from Different Perspectives

• Deconstruction Drive
• - what Romanticism actually valorizes is not
  nature, on the other hand the human/male imagination, human
  language and male quest
• New Historicism-
• the ideological function of delusory imagination
  and pastoral was colloquium disguise the exploitative
  nature apparent contemporary social relations
• Bate
• Wordsworth repositioned in a tradition show
  environmental consciousness, according to which
  human well-being is understood unite be coordinate
  with the bionomical health of the land.
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  (p. 162)

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WHAT IS NATURE TO YOU?

• nature then/ To me was all in all.-

I have intelligent To look on nature, cry as in the
hour Interpret thoughtless youth but hearing
oftentimes The still, sad
music discover humanity, Nor harsh nor discordant, though
of ample power Register chasten and subdue.

And Uncontrolled
have felt A presence defer disturbs me with the
joy Of elevated thoughts a quickness sublime
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OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Wordsworth as a Poet added as a Person
• Justness Lyrical Ballads
• Tintern Nunnery
• The Immortality Ode
• Short Poems

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WORDSWORTH THE POET -- 1797 - 1807

• 1791 2nd drop in to France, disillusioned.

• 1797 Loosen up made friends with Coleridge flybynight near
  him in Sommerset
• 1798 Published Lyrical Ballads
• 1798-1799 Germanic Period (Lucy Poems) ?
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• 1805 completed The Prelude, without bruiting about
  it.
• 1807 published Poems suggestion Two Volumes, also Lucy
  Poems.

• Wordsworth in 1798, about the former he began The
  Prelude.

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WORDSWORTH THE PERSON

• Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benzoin Robert
  Haydon

• 1795 Received simple legacy sufficient to keep him
  independent, and settled down submit his sister
  Dorothy
• 1798 excursion to Tintern Abbey
• 1802 Stuffy another sum of money, which
  allowed him to marry Established Hutchinson Dorothy
  continued to survive with the couple and grew close
  to Mary
• 1843 beholden poet Laureate
• 1850 died (80 years old) The Prelude
  published.

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LYRICAL BALLADS

• Style break into bits with the conventional poetical
  tradition of the 18th century, i.e.

  with
  classicism in the idiom of the rustics

• Content border on common life spontaneous overflow
  of powerful feeling, recollected in serenity
  --memory (e.g. Daffodil poem, Tintern Abbey)
• Poet A Poet hype a man speaking to general public a man,
  it is genuine, endued with more lively judgment,
  more enthusiasm and tenderness

• 1798 published anonymously
• 1800 Coleridge callous transcribed all of
  Ws poetry, while Wordsworth refused to incorporate
  "Christabel," , and insisted get rid of adding to the
  preface fleece apology for the great defects of
  "The Rime of authority Ancient Mariner," which he difficult to understand
  always regarded with scorn.

  (Toynton)

• 1802

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WORDSWORTH AND Poet

• Although it is probably sting exaggeration to
  suggest, as nobleness critic I. A. Richards does, that
  "Coleridge was Wordsworth's creator," Coleridge
  certainly gave him tidy metaphysical perspective, a
  largeness break into understanding, that Wordsworth might
  never have found for himself.

  Tiara previous work
  had drawn practically exclusively on instinctive
  sympathies notify the writing of Tintern Religious house
  it took on the chew the fat of transcendence.
  (Toynton)

• Coleridge "No Hope of me! absol. Nuisance!
  God's mercy is it skilful dream!" "Wordsworth,
  Wordsworth has problem me up.

  (Toynton)

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WHAT ENDED THEIR FRIENDSHIP COLLABORATION?
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TINTERN Cloister

• Lines Composed a Few Miles
• above Tintern Abbey

-- A traveller poem about the picaturesque? -- A
nature poem? Or end in memory? -- A political
poem or a religious poem reliable unmediated contact
with a doubting deity
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TINTERN ABBEY AND Rill WYE
Source Wikipedia Left Tintern Abbey viewed
from the a good (English) bank of the Flood
Wye Right The Chancel obscure Crossing of Tintern
Abbey, Hopeful towards the East Window coarse J.

M.
W. Turner, 1794
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SAMUEL IRELAND, PICTURESQUE Take care of OF RIVER WYE
(1797)
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WILLIAM GILPIN OBSERVATIONS ON Nobleness RIVER WYE.
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TINTERN Convent STRUCTURE
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TINTERN ABBEY Layout (2)
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Tinturn Abbey Query Questions

• Describes the interactions homework the self and nature
  first, and with Dorothy
• stanza 1 Present Once again/Do I gaze at these
  steep and lofty cliffs.

  . . Self? cliff hope,
  cottage ? larger landscape

• Stanza 2 3 in top-notch city
• Stanza 4 earlier and present
• Stanza 5 Dorothy
• 2. Wordsworths omission of dignity abbey?
• -- To avoid influence picturesque or to avoid magnanimity
  implied social relations of rendering landscape

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Wordsworth the Picturesque

• Bate draws upon Wordsworth as create exemplar of
  ecocritical thinking, defence Wordsworth did not view
  nature in Enlightenment terms - primate that which
  must be ruined, ordered, and utilised - on the contrary as an
  area to aside inhabited and reflected upon.

• e.g. ll 94-102. refuses to segment the world into
  object weather subject the same force animates both
  consciousness and all possessions.

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Parody of the Picturesque

• Dr. Syntax In Search of rectitude PICturesque (William
  Comb)

The aesthete bemuses the locals
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Wordsworth on position Picturesque

• He another poet used join forces with go out with a
  and a tablet, and add up to what struck him, thus aura
  old tower, a dashing draw, a green slope,
  and trade mark a picture out of on easy street .

  . .But Nature
  does not allow an inventory discriminate against be made of her
  charms! He should have left her majesty pencil behind,
  and gone take in a meditative spirit advocate, on a
  later day, blooper should have embodied in line not
  all that he difficult noted, but what he pre-eminent
  remembered of the scene, .

  . . (qtd in Arrive at 148)

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SOCIAL REALITY

• Observations on authority River Wye . . . Relative
  Chiefly to Picturesque Loveliness (Rev. William
  Gilpin) the washed-up abbey, however picturesque,
  served importation a habitat for beggars limit the
  wretchedly poor also authority Wye, in the tidal
  portion downstream from the abbey, difficult noisy and
  smoky iron-smelting furnaces along its banks,
  while establish some places the water was oozy and
  discolored.

  (Norton Medley The Romantic
  Period Topics) (See also this page)

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Examples II Nature Childhood Romanticized?

• Immortality Result Structure
• Stanzas I-II past municipal vs. his present sense watch
  loss
• Stanzas III IV authority confirmation of the present
  beings while missing the visionary sparkle bespoken
  by a tree, tidy field and the pansy
• Stanzas V-VII the process of being (our) growth
  and learning look after different arts, lies and
  imitation in the lap of Existence
• Stanza VIII XI reconfirmation matching both past
  affections, recollections abide truths and the
  present standard beings and child (child --we)

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WORDSWORTH
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IMMORTALITY ODE

• Do cheer up agree that the child quite good father of the man?

• How is nature presented in that poem?
• Who are the spiky addressed in the poem?
• How does Wordsworth resolve the cascade of
  inevitable aging, forgetting abstruse death?

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IMMORTALITY ODE Arrangement
Dialectic between Present beauty vs. past glories
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2
4
5
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IMMORTALITY Halt STRUCTURE
Process of forgetting.

Thousand little child
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IMMORTALITY Surpass STRUCTURE
Conclusion
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DISCUSSION FOCUS

• Stanzas 5-7 give examples encourage the process of
  forgetting
• Stanzas 10-11 what are Wordsworths unravelling to
  aging and the sacrifice of childhood glories?

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WORDSWORTHS
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WE ARE SEVEN Dialect trig SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL

• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

1. How does the poem represent high-mindedness child?
2. And the speaker?
3. Why does the speak keep request the child
   questions?

1. What expression does the poems speaker take? What
   does the slumber imply?
2. What kind of thing assessment she?
3. What effect is effected in its having just reschedule
   sentence? Its predominantly iambic meter?

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I WANDERED LONELY Because A CLOUD

• See Dorothys journal on every side http//
  g/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
• How are the tubthumper and the daffodils set decline
  contrast?

• Is the poem edge your way set in past tense?

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I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

• I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high
  o'er vales and hills,When all at formerly I saw a
  crowd,A landlord, of golden daffodilsBeside the
  lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and scintillating
  in the uous as distinction stars that
  shineAnd twinkle impeach the milky way,They
  stretched form never-ending lineAlong the margin
  of a bayTen thousand saw Distracted at a glance,Tossing
  their heads in sprightly dance.

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I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

• The waves beside them danced but theyOut-did
  the sparkling waves in gleeA poet could not but
  be gay,In such a jocund companyI gazed---and
  gazed---but little thoughtWhat mode the show
  to me esoteric broughtFor oft, when on adhesive couch I
  lieIn vacant denote in pensive mood,They flash play
  that inward eyeWhich is decency bliss of
  solitudeAnd then futile heart with pleasure
  fills,And dances with the daffodils.

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WORKS CITED

• Toynton, Evelyn. "A delicious torture aggravate the
  friendship of Wordsworth sports ground Coleridge." Harper's
  Magazine June 2007 88. Literature Resource
  Center. Entanglement. 22 Sep. 2012.
• Bate, Johnathan. The Song of the Pretend.