Wordsworth

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                        Wordsworth

Introduction:-

              William Wordsworth is considered the pioneer of the Romanticism in English literature ‘The Lyrical Ballads’ was published in 1798 under the combined authorship of Wordsworth and Coleridge. This poetry collection is considered the mile stone of 19^th century English Romantic poetry. In the ‘prefect to the lyrical Ballads’, Wordsworth at least length comments upon the functions and nature of poetry. Thus, Wordsworth poses himself as a poet critic in English literature. In the preface he proposes to choose includes and situation from common life and to describe them in the language really used by men. However Wordsworth adds that these description taken up in the poems could be given imaginative color. Wordsworth emphasis to find out the primary laws of our nature through these poems. He cherishes humble and rustic life as the source of poetry writing. He says that the language used by rustic people is plain and emphatic such a language will be marked with the quality of simplicity of diction in poetry. He says that the manners of rural life germinate from elementary feelings and they are durable for a long time. Moreover, the passions of man in such condition are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent form of nature. He says that the rustic language is not only the simple one but is also includes expressions. He says that the poet could be identified as a translator. Who translates other people’s sentiments from his point of view? Wordsworth then quotes Aristotle and says that poetry is the image of men and nature and the poets write under one restriction only namely the necessity of giving imaginative pleasure to a human being possessed of that information.

              Wordsworth defines poetry in his preface to the Lyrical Ballads. He says that poetry the spontaneous overflow of power feeling recollected in tranquility. Wordsworth also discuss the term ‘poet’ and the language used by the poet while written poems. He says that the poet is man speaking to men. He is endowed with more lively sensibility more enthusiasm and tenderness.

              The poet has a greater knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive soul than are supposed to be common among mankind. Wordsworth says that the poet is a man pleased with his own passions and volition and he rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him. Wordsworth says that the poet considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fair and most interstice properties of nature. The poet converse worth general nature. The knowledge of the poet and the man of science is pleasure. However the poet sings a song in which all human beings joined with him rejoice in the presence of the truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.

              Wordsworth says that poetry is the breath and spirit of all knowledge. It is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science. The poet is the man who looks before and after. He is the rock of defense for human nature an up holder and preserver, charring everywhere with him relationship and love. The poet binds together be passion and knowledge. It is a immortal as the heart of man.

v      The Wordsworth theme of poetry.

The Wordsworth’s of the written by large number of poetry in poems written by him. They are the theme of the though Wordsworth poetry remained the consistent through. Even of the body language structure and images of a Wordsworth theme. They a beginning point of view in a theme remained remarkably consistent. It could be a magnification of the embody remained considered the consistent. They may be being canons Wordsworth had set out the preface to a Lyrical Ballads. In the second Ballads (1802).

Wordsworth argued that a poetry should be written in the real language of common man, rather than in the lofty and elaborate diction that were then considered “poetic”. He believed that the first principal of poetry should be pleasure and so the chief duty of poetry is to provide pleasure through a rhythmic and beautiful expression of feeling. All human sympathy, he asserted, is based on a subtle pleasure principle that is “the naked and native dignity of man”. The Wordsworth’s a poetic of a many created of the poetic divided into the initiated the Romantic era of Wordsworth. At that time a feeling of emphasizing of the poetic devices of Wordsworth they are a instinct of a feeling at that time. A most of the formality above them and mannerism. They are a more than any poet before him. They could have may be also believed the Wordsworth a gave expression to a inchoate of human emotion of the may be a Wordsworth devices of the manly kind of the poem. Thus the poem is a kindness of the Lyrical Ballad.

In the “Advertisement” to the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads,  Wordsworth and Coleridge state that the poems in the collection were intended as a deliberate experiment in style and subject matter. Wordsworth elaborated on this idea in the “preface to the 1800 and 1802 editions which outline his main idea of a new theory of poetry”. Wordsworth explained his poetical concept.

              “The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure”.

If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a signal of shift to the modern literature. One of the main theme of the “Lyrical Ballads” is the return to the original state of nature, in which man led a purer and more innocent existence. The subscription of the Rousseau’s belief that man was essentially good and was corrupted by the influence of society. This may be linked with sentiments spreading thought Europe just prior to the French Revolution.

They are a Rejecting the classical notion that poetry should be elevated subjects and should be composed in a formal style, Wordsworth instead championed more democratic themes. The lives of ordinary men and women, farmer, papers and the rural poor. In the “preface” Wordsworth also emphasizes his commitment to writing in the ordinary language of people, not highly crafted poetical one. True the traditional ballad form, the poems depict realistic characters in realistic situations, and so contain a strong narrative element.

      

ØObject (Subject matter of poetry)

They could have been a principle of object in then proposed in these poem was choose inside and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them, throughout as far as possible in selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination where by ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these situation and incidents interesting  by tracing in them, truly through not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature; chiefly as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.

Ø Humble and rustic life(Subject matter of poetry) 

Humble and rustic life was generally chose because in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a batter soil in which they can attain their maturity , are less under restraint and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life,our elementary feeling co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; because the manner of rural life germinate from these elementary feelings, and from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable; and lastly, because in that condition the passion of man are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.

 Language (Style of Poetry)

The language, too of these men has been adapted purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and relational causes of dislike. In the disgust-because such men communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived; and because, from their rank intercourse being less under the influence of social variety, they convey their feeling and notions in simple and elaborated expressions. According to a such a language a Wordsworth poetic of the arising out of the repeated of the language of experience and regular feelings is a more permanent a Wordsworth Lyrical Ballad and poetic devices of the far more a philosophical language of them a Wordsworth. That which is frequently substitutes for it by poets. Who thinks that they are conferring of they could have been honor upon themselves and their art, at proportion as they separate themselves. A maintain about from the sympathy of men. That’s will be indulge in arbitrary. They could have been a maintain about the capricious habits of expression. They are in the order to furnish food for fickle appetites. Thus of their own creation about the Wordsworth poetry.

The Wordsworth a style of poetical device of the owner of a poetic view. They are the most revolutionary of all the idea in his preface. He is a discarded the gaudiness of the many modern write of a poem if could begin language. That his poems are written in the ‘selection of language of man in a state of vivid selection’. His views a writing of William Wordsworth a view of poetic diction can be summed up as: ‘these is a different to the neither or nor can be any essential of the difference of the between the language of a prose a poem essential if they could have may be a metrical composition’. Of the Wordsworth.

Ø The poetry of Wordsworth Definition:

              For all good poetry of the Wordsworth is a kindness of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling and it is to be a true faithfulness. They have been a poems to which any value of they can be attract they were never produced on any variety of subjects of the but by a man of they are a being processed of the more have been of a usual organic sensibility a Wordsworth view of the poems had may be also find be the thought long and deep.

              They are a lifelines of our continued the influxes of the poems may be a modified and directed by our thoughts of a quotation by stanza by stanza. The contemplating a relation of these general of the representative each other a real a discover. They are a originally possessed of the such sensibility a habits of a mind will be produced. They are blindly and a mechanically of the impulses of the habits.

              When which the other that the understanding of the Reader must necessarily be in some degree enlightened, and his a affections strengthened and purified.

What is poet?

The poet is a speaking to men of the man it a true of the endowed with more lively sensibility of the more enthusiasm and tenderness.

    

The function of poetry.

‘poetry’, according to Wordsworth, ‘is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science’.

       Poetry is the instrument for the propagation of moral thoughts.

       They are truths about life and religion. Wordsworth believes that’s a poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life; a poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is a poetry of difference towards life.