Wordsworth’s Poetry

Wordsworth’s Poetry

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Wordsworth’s Poetry

Wordsworth, the best known of the English Romantic poets grew up in the Lake District of north western England.The area’s natural beauty had a major influence on his character,philosophy and poetic vision.
He tells us about this especially in the poem “ Tintern Abbey”. Here he relates how his relationship with nature developed, from boyhood pleasures” when like a roe ,I bounded
o’er the mountains”,to the love he felt in his early manhood,” The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion”,to a more spiritual relationship as he himself matured into adulthood.He speaks of nature’s power to chasten and subdue the”still sad music of humanity”,he tells of his sense of a presence in nature”a motion and a spirit that impels all thinking things,all objects of all thoughts and rolls through all things.”Here he also describes nature as “the anchor of my purest thoughts,the nurse,the guide,the guardian of my heart and soul of all my moral being.
In the same poem he explained the benefits gained from visiting areas like the Wye Valley,not only in providing present pleasure
but also a store of memories which he can turn to when he finds himself”In lonely rooms and ‘mid the din of towns and cities”.He speaks of nature’s moral influence resulting in his little unremembered acts of kindness and of love.He tells his sister Dorothy of nature’s calming effect but also its ability to provide that serene and blessed mood,when “we are laid asleep in body and become a living soul”.In this state of harmony and joy” we see into the life of things “.In this poem then we see the Philosophy that informs all his writing.
A number of these themes are taken up in the poem” To my Sister”.The occasion being the first mild day in Spring, he calls on his sister to leave her chores and books and come out to enjoy the delights of nature.This is a typical Romantic poem, the simple language, the rhythm and short four line stanzas help to convey the intensity of feeling,...

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