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The Romantic period of English literature is enriched with one-of-a-kind creations of legendary minds like William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and many more. Wordsworth, among them, is undoubtedly the greatest and longest surviving. The poem being discussed in context here belongs to a specific genre of Wordsworthian poems. Wordsworth’s poems, though belonging to… Continue reading The Solitary Reaper: Rhyme Scheme and Figure of Speech: 2022
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He was a major English Romantic poet who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped in establishing the Romantic age in English Literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads in the year 1798. His parents passed away when he was quite young. He was… Continue reading Analysis of ‘Foresight’ by William Wordsworth: 2022
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He was a major English Romantic poet who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped in establishing the Romantic Age/Era in English Literature with their joint publication ‘Lyrical Ballads’ in the year 1798. His parents passed away when he was quite young. He was… Continue reading Analysis of ‘The Fountain’ by William Wordsworth: 2022
About William Wordsworth: Born in 1770 in Cockermouth, Wordsworth had a cheerful childhood which made him believe in the essential goodness of mankind. This had made him particularly fond of rural England, to which, later on, he would dedicate many tributes. He was sent to St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1787 but inspired and impressed… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of “Scorn Not The Sonnet” by William Wordsworth: 2022
Collected in the Lyrical Ballads, among the ‘Lucy’ series, the poem She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, retraces the poet’s prevalent meditative mood. The poem begins with the third person pronoun, “she” and the poet immediately offers an objective detachment from the subjective persona. The mysterious aura is at once developed for she dwelt… Continue reading Tone and Rhyme Scheme: She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways: 2022
In this poem, the poet finds himself caught in imagination, or memory, transfixed near his childhood home. Here, he meets a local character: a beggar whose beauty lies in his being old and is someone whom the poet knew as a child. The burden of existence has caused him to bend over with age, and… Continue reading The Old Cumberland Beggar: Themes: 2022
In this poem, the poet takes up Nature as the greatest teacher possible. Lucy had grown amidst the beauty of Nature for three years when it was decided that Nature would take up the responsibility of her education. She seems to be the most beautiful entity on earth, and Nature proclaims that Lucy will be… Continue reading Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower: Summary and Analysis: 2022
Walter Pater defines Romanticism as an “addition of strangeness to beauty”; Wordsworth detects in the common aspects of life, “the light that never was on sea or land.” It is the obscure light that Wordsworth detects to be in unison with the aspects of nature. Thus in the theme of Romantic transcendentalism, the poem Three… Continue reading Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower Themes: 2022
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before… Continue reading Analysis of Foresight by William Wordsworth: 2022
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this summary of daffodils by William Wordsworth. Imagination has been the source of Wordsworth’s poetry. Nature is seen as a guide/angel, a source of Wisdom in every poetic work of Wordsworth. Simplicity, mysticism, spontaneity, and individual freedom forms the keynote of Wordsworth’s poems. Daffodils or I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Daffodils by William Wordsworth: 2022
