At the Heart of Wordsworth's Poetry Is a Compelling Relationship with Nature Expressed in the Language of Every Day Life.

At the Heart of Wordsworth's Poetry Is a Compelling Relationship with Nature Expressed in the Language of Every Day Life.

  • Submitted By: niamhy
  • Date Submitted: 10/19/2010 11:03 AM
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After studying the poetry of William Wordsworth, I strongly agree with the statement above. Wordsworth uses every day language to convey his compelling relationship with nature to the reader, which can be understood easily. Wordsworth hoped that his poetry would help us ‘to see, to think and to feel’ and this it has done. His poetry heightened my appreciation of nature’s beauty and appeal through his use of simple, everyday language. Wordsworth left aside the formal language of the poets who preceded him. His poetry is an experiment in using the ‘language of men’ as he termed it, or everyday diction and syntax, which makes his poetry readily accessible.
William Wordsworth is most often described as a "nature" writer always paying close attention to details of the physical environment around him. He teaches us that we can better understand ourselves and our place in the universe through our relationship with nature, which he does.
In his poem “To My Sister” the main theme is his close relationship with his sister and his compelling relationship with nature. It expresses a number of spiritual benefits to be gained through man’s close relationship with nature and the divine aspect of the natural world. He conveys his love of nature through simple, everyday language: the redbreast sings from the tall larch that stands beside our door,” and “the bare trees and mountains bare and grass in the green field.” In the first stanza Wordsworth explains the beauty and ‘joy’ of man’s interaction with nature, which closely reflects Wordsworth’s compelling relationship with nature. The reader is immediately mesmerised and drawn into the poem as they can relate to the simple, everyday language throughout the poem. In the third verse, Wordsworth conveys his urgency for his sister to go out for a walk. He wants her to engage with him in nature “my sister- make haste, your morning tasks resign, come forth and feel the sun”. This highlights the compelling relationship with...

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