Wordsworth and the French Revolution

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Wordsworth and the French Revolution

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The Prelude is considered by many as a valley that readers mine for its richness in poetic message . That fact was already proven by the popularity and attention that The Prelude has gained over time . The richness of the text poses a problem for anyone who would try to unearth the author 's intentions . To know the author 's exact intentions is really a great undertaking . We can know Wordworth 's intentions only if he himself

will reveal it to the public . But the great William Wordsworth is poet . There is a better chance for us telling him to kill himself than to reveal explicitly his intentions . As many great artists say explicitness is proven dangerous to any form of art . I humbly admit that I can 't supply the genuine intentions of William Wordsworth . What I can give are interpretations of the text The Prelude

According to my reading , the dominant and a possible intention of The Prelude 's French Revolution sections could be the poet 's disappointments and frustrations about the French Revolution . He became frustrated and disappointed about the collapse of the revolution because he was an active partisan of the revolution . In fact he was so fond of the ideals of revolutions . Wordsworth expressed his amazement at the revolution through poetry : how bright a face when joy of one , is joy of tens of millions (Wordsworth

There are several ideologies that we can unearth from the text . Probably the most dominant ideology is the idea of being revolutionary . These were revolutionary ideas like what Marxist and anti-capitalists have . As Wordsworth says it , man free , man working for himself , with a choice of time , place , and object (Wordsworth

Wordsworth time was full of depression and asked for radical change in the society . In a sense , the back story of how the long poem The Prelude originated is not only a mere vanity to express one 's oozing talent and creativity . The Prelude is more of a coping mechanism , a poet 's reaction to what is happening around him . Wordsworth had transformed everything he felt about the revolution through flowing verses and metaphors

Setting aside the ideologies regarding the revolution , The Prelude was also a celebration of nature . It even appears that William Wordsworth makes Nature speak for all its beauty and glory . William Wordsworth had said himself that his heart leaps when he beholds a rainbow in the sky (Wordsworth

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Ironically , the other ideology that is prevalent in poems of Wordsworth is surprisingly antirevolutionary . We can also call this antievolution as conservatism . The poet William Wordsworth was obviously amazed by the promises that the revolution brings , but as a poet who has a profound and critical mind , he was also aware of the excesses of the revolution Wordsworth had this shift of political opinion at the same time as most people in Europe had changed their position about the revolution (Johnston

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