William Wordsworths poetry
Essay on William Wordsworth's PoetryWilliam Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth on April 7, 1770. Wordsworth's mother died when he was eight years old and this experience may have been a vital section to the way Wordsworth's work was shaped out later in his life. Wordsworth then attended Hawkshead Grammar School where his passion for poetry was recognised. Going to this school may have intrigued him to write a lot of emotional poems about the country side as he spent a lot of time there mingling with the country folks and roaming the area. After leaving Hawkshead, Wordsworth studied in Cambridge but before his final semester he went out on a walking Tour of Europe, an experience that without doubt influenced his poetry. While touring Europe Wordsworth came in contact with the French revolution, this encounter bought out the interests and sympathy for life and troubles and speech for the 'common man'. Wordsworth's earliest poetry was published in 1793, at the age of twenty three, in the collections 'Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches'. Subsequent to this he has written much more poetry resulting to 70,000 lines of verse, which is 40,000 more than any other poet ever. In 1850, whilst walking in the country, William
This may first come to the reader as a 'crowd' of people but Wordsworth is using this to describe how the daffodils look to him. This affected Wordsworth because people began losing interest in the country side but Wordsworth was fond of it and wanted to bring the admiration back which led him to expressing his views through poetry. There are many poetic techniques in this poem. For example, in 'Nutting' he looks back to when he 'destroyed' some of nature and in 'The Daffodils' he looks back to him roaming through nature. When this poem is read it first reminds you of a fairy tale, stating he leaves a cottage, hangs a 'huge wallet o'er' his shoulders and turns to the 'far-distant wood'. An example of this is shown in Wordsworth's poems as he uses the country side, in many occasions, to inspire him and then writes about them exploring what he sees and what is not visible to man but is in mans mind. The poem finishes with 'touch--for there is a spirit in the woods'- this reminds you of heaven because of the word 'spirit' suggesting that Wordsworth admires the countryside so much that he is describing it as heaven it self. This comment shows that not only is nature a matter of presented landscape but it is also a source of inspiration because it has inspired Wordsworth to write such imaginative poetry. I believe Wordsworth has been able to produce his poems the way he has because of his love towards nature and his inspiration from it. He believed science was the opposite of poetry; science is limited to the facts but in poetry it is possible to go beyond the facts and explore different places and words. The next line of simile is 'continuous as the stars that shine'. He uses the alteration of tense to first simply state in the past tense of what is happening, 'the waves beside them danced', then uses a different tense to describe the occurrence, 'the sparkling waves'. The mood of this poem is different at various stages as are the moods in a story or a fairy tale.
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