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| Type of paper: | Essay |
| Subject area: | Literature and Language |
| Academic level: | College |
| Style: | APA |
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1464 words/6 pages
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| Author: | In Norton |
| Date submitted: | 2008-11-22 01:08:11 |
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Running Head : POETRY ANALYSIS : WORDSWORTH AND DICKINSON Name of Student : Title of Subject : ``Poetry Analysis : Wordsworth and Dickinson ' Name of Professor : Date : William Wordsworth is considered one of the instigators of English Romanticism . The publication of his Lyrical Ballads , co-authored by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey , is considered the landmark occasion which ushered in the Romantic era in literature . Wordsworth came to literature with a particular philosophy of what poetry should be , and he explained this philosophy in detail in his extended Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads published in 1802 . In it he expressed the belief that true poetry is only a ``spontaneous overflow ' of the emotions (Wordsworth 1989 , p . 164 . It was really a violent reaction against the neoclassical strain which has infused literature in the 18th century , and which emphasized the measured and rational approach . Wordsworth and his co-Romanticists meant to break the shackles that rationalism had come to impose on poetry , and more generally on the European mind . They meant to usher in a sense of spontaneity and feeling . Wordsworth set himself the aim that his poetry would be understood by the common reader , and that it should not require high learning in order to enjoy . ``I wandered lonely as a cloud ' is one of the best examples of Wordsworth 's poetry written in this vein . Such a poem can be said to have a two fold audience . On the one hand there is the common man , whose affinity to nature is what the poem draws on for inspiration . But Wordsworth is also making a statement to the learned wits , which the elaborate Prelude to the Lyrical Ballads attests to . It is a carefully crafted poem , and therefore cannot be called spontaneous , even though it hints at the spontaneous imagination of the poet . The poem gives us a glimpse of the sublime , as it impresses on the poet 's mind on seeing a vista full of daffodils . It is that fleeting and overwhelming vision that is the entire subject matter of the poem . It is a vision that can only be found in the heart of nature , away from the bustle of society . For this reason almost all the images in the poem are borrowed from nature , and the poet describes himself as ``wandering like a cloud ' in his sojourn through nature . Suddenly he comes upon a lake whose opposite bank is carpeted with and endless array of daffodils . It was as if they were ``[t]ossing their heads in sprightly dance , and the breeze swept through them in waves . Such waves they were that even the golden reflection-bearing waves in the lake were not their match . It was as if the daffodils were spreading their joy and beauty all around them , and in such ``jocund company ' the poet could not help but be touched with the same spirit . So strong was this impression of beauty on the poet 's mind that it never fades for him . Afterwards , in pensive , solitary moments , it comes... |
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