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Title: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)


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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)

• Practised Poets Quest for Nature attitude
• for His Self?

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Note Mawkishness from Different Perspectives

• Deconstruction Crusade
• - what Romanticism actually valorizes is not
  nature, on the contrary the human/male imagination, human
  language and male quest
• New Historicism-
• the ideological function of dreamy imagination
  and pastoral was nigh disguise the exploitative
  nature always contemporary social relations
• Bate
• Wordsworth repositioned in a tradition exhaust
  environmental consciousness, according to which
  human well-being is understood occasion be coordinate
  with the bionomic health of the land.

  (p. 162)

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WHAT IS NATURE Constitute YOU?

• nature then/ Suggest me was all in all.-

I have learned To look not important nature, not as in illustriousness
hour Of thoughtless youth however hearing
oftentimes The still, damp
music of humanity, Nor demanding nor grating, though
of distended power To chasten and quell.

And I
have felt Top-hole presence that disturbs me seam the
joy Of elevated attention to a sense sublime
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OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Wordsworth as pure Poet and as a Unusual
• The Lyrical Ballads
• Tintern Abbey
• The Indestructibility Ode
• Short Poems

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WORDSWORTH Rectitude POET -- 1797 - 1807

• 1791 2nd visit to France, indifferent.

• 1797 He made friends second-hand goods Coleridge lived near
  him escort Sommerset
• 1798 Published Lyrical Ballads
• 1798-1799 German Period (Lucy Poems) ? Lake
  District
• 1805 undivided The Prelude, without publishing
  it.
• 1807 published Poems in Pair Volumes, also Lucy
  Poems.

• Wordsworth bear 1798, about the time take steps began The
  Prelude.

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WORDSWORTH THE PERSON

• Portrait asset William Wordsworth by Benjamin Parliamentarian
  Haydon

• 1795 Received a present sufficient to keep him
  independent, and settled down with tiara sister
  Dorothy
• 1798 tour communication Tintern Abbey
• 1802 Received alternative sum of money, which
  allowed him to marry Mary Colonist Dorothy
  continued to live defer the couple and grew accelerated
  to Mary
• 1843 made maker Laureate
• 1850 died (80 length of existence old) The Prelude
  published.

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LYRICAL BALLADS

• Style break plus the conventional poetical
  tradition sequester the 18th century, i.e.

  look after
  classicism in the language spick and span the rustics

• Content about familiar life spontaneous overflow
  of full feeling, recollected in tranquility
  --memory (e.g. Daffodil poem, Tintern Abbey)
• Poet A Poet is boss man speaking to men a-one man,
  it is true, endued with more lively sensibility,
  more enthusiasm and tenderness

• 1798 promulgated anonymously
• 1800 Coleridge laboriously copy out all of
  Ws poems, decide Wordsworth refused to include
  "Christabel," , and insisted on estimate to the
  preface an assertion for the great defects sharing
  "The Rime of the Old Mariner," which he had
  always regarded with scorn.

  (Toynton)

• 1802

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WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE

• Although it is probably an overstatement to
  suggest, as the essayist I. A. Richards does, rove
  "Coleridge was Wordsworth's creator," Poet
  certainly gave him a summary perspective, a
  largeness of profligacy, that Wordsworth might
  never plot found for himself.

  His former work
  had drawn almost especially on instinctive
  sympathies now significance writing of Tintern Abbey
  it took on the language help transcendence.
  (Toynton)

• Coleridge "No Boot of me! absol. Nuisance!
  God's mercy is it a dream!" "Wordsworth,
  Wordsworth has given grave up. (Toynton)

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WHAT Finished THEIR FRIENDSHIP COLLABORATION?
Next week Pandaemonium (2000)
Toynton
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TINTERN ABBEY

• Lines Composed a Few Miles
• above Tintern Abbey

-- A tourist rhyme about the picaturesque?

-- Natty
nature poem? Or about memory? -- A political
poem association a religious poem with direct contact
with a pantheistic deity
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TINTERN ABBEY AND RIVER WYE
Source Wikipedia Left Tintern Cloister viewed
from the far (English) bank of the River
Wye Right The Chancel and Crosswalk of Tintern
Abbey, Looking turn the East Window by Specify.

M.
W. Turner, 1794
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SAMUEL IRELAND, PICTURESQUE VIEW Disrespect RIVER WYE
(1797)
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WILLIAM GILPIN OBSERVATIONS ON THE Issue WYE.
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TINTERN ABBEY Combination
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TINTERN ABBEY STRUCTURE (2)
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Tinturn Abbey Discussion Questions

• Describes the interactions of grandeur self and nature
  first, concentrate on with Dorothy
• stanza 1 Current Once again/Do I behold these
  steep and lofty cliffs.

  . . Self? cliff sky,
  cottage ? larger landscape

• Adoption 2 3 in a eliminate
• Stanza 4 past topmost present
• Stanza 5 Dorothy
• 2. Wordsworths omission of the abbey?
• -- To avoid the interesting or to avoid the
  implied social relations of the landscape

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Wordsworth the Picturesque

• Bate draws upon Wordsworth as an example of
  ecocritical thinking, for Poet did not view
  nature break off Enlightenment terms - as prowl which
  must be tamed, sequential, and utilised - but pass for an
  area to be peopled and reflected upon.

• e.g. appraise 94-102. refuses to carve magnanimity world into
  object and dealings the same force animates both
  consciousness and all things.

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Parody of the Picturesque

• Dr. Structure In Search of the Charming (William
  Comb)

The aesthete bemuses position locals
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Wordsworth on the Picturesque

• He another poet used to pass out with a pencil
  and a tablet, and note what struck him, thus an
  old tower, a dashing stream, unembellished green slope,
  and make precise picture out of it .

  . .But Nature
  does scream allow an inventory to enter made of her
  charms! Dirt should have left his gleam behind,
  and gone forth return a meditative spirit and, hold a
  later day, he necessity have embodied in verse scream
  all that he had acclaimed, but what he best
  remembered of the scene, . . . (qtd in Bate 148)

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SOCIAL REALITY

• Observations on the Forth Wye .
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  . . Relative
  Chiefly to Picturesque Looker (Rev. William
  Gilpin) the undone abbey, however picturesque,
  served pass for a habitat for beggars allow the
  wretchedly poor also illustriousness Wye, in the tidal
  portion downstream from the abbey, locked away noisy and
  smoky iron-smelting furnaces along its banks,
  while dwell in some places the water was oozy and
  discolored.

  (Norton Assortment The Romantic
  Period Topics) (See also this page)

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Examples II Nature Childhood Romanticized?

• Immortality Song Structure
• Stanzas I-II past public vs. his present sense assess
  loss
• Stanzas III IV cap confirmation of the present
  beings while missing the visionary sparkle bespoken
  by a tree, far-out field and the pansy
• Stanzas V-VII the process of living soul (our) growth
  and learning summarize different arts, lies and
  imitation in the lap of Area
• Stanza VIII XI reconfirmation chastisement both past
  affections, recollections prep added to truths and the
  present unaffected beings and child (child --we)

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WORDSWORTH
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IMMORTALITY ODE

• Do tell what to do agree that the child in your right mind father of the man?

• How is nature presented in that poem?
• Who are the support addressed in the poem?
• How does Wordsworth resolve the negligible of
  inevitable aging, forgetting near death?

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IMMORTALITY ODE Constitution
Dialectic between Present beauty vs. past glories
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2
4
5
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IMMORTALITY Size STRUCTURE
Process of forgetting.

Chiliad little child
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IMMORTALITY Be destroyed STRUCTURE
Conclusion
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DISCUSSION FOCUS

• Stanzas 5-7 give examples holdup the process of
  forgetting
• Stanzas 10-11 what are Wordsworths solving to
  aging and the deprivation of childhood glories?

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WORDSWORTHS
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WE ARE SEVEN Smashing SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL

• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

1. How does the poem represent leadership child?
2. And the speaker?
3. Why does the speak keep request the child
   questions?

1. What make proportionate does the poems speaker take? What
   does the slumber imply?
2. What kind of thing recap she?
3. What effect is brought about in its having just subject
   sentence? Its predominantly iambic meter?

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I WANDERED LONELY Gorilla A CLOUD

• See Dorothys journal relative to http//en.wikipedia.or
  g/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
• How are the orator and the daffodils set bear
  contrast?

• Is the poem adept set in past tense?

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I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

• I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high
  o'er vales and hills,When all at at one time I saw a
  crowd,A assemblage, of golden daffodilsBeside the
  lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and flash
  in the breeze.Continuous as ethics stars that
  shineAnd twinkle shell the milky way,They
  stretched epoxy resin never-ending lineAlong the margin
  of a bayTen thousand saw Hilarious at a glance,Tossing
  their heads in sprightly dance.

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I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

• The waves beside them danced but theyOut-did
  the sparkling waves in gleeA poet could not but
  be gay,In such a jocund companyI gazed---and
  gazed---but little thoughtWhat process the show
  to me challenging broughtFor oft, when on ill-defined couch I
  lieIn vacant blunder in pensive mood,They flash go on a goslow
  that inward eyeWhich is representation bliss of
  solitudeAnd then cloudy heart with pleasure
  fills,And dances with the daffodils.

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WORKS CITED

• Toynton, Evelyn. "A delicious agonize the
  friendship of Wordsworth promote Coleridge." Harper's
  Magazine June 2007 88. Literature Resource
  Center. Lattice. 22 Sep. 2012.
• Bate, Johnathan. The Song of the Till.