Analysis Of ' Daffodils ' By William Wordsworth

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Romanticism is a movement spanning the 19th century, dedicated to a return to nature within literature and art. It was a confident reaction to the industrial revolution, in which man-made objects became the life of soul of the everyman’s everyday life. The great artists and poets and authors of the time began to create works filled with passion and emotion and all interpreted from the themes within nature. During this period, authors and artists alike found inspiration in things such as flowers, for example William Wordsworth’s classic entitled ‘daffodils’. In his poem he talks about seeing daffodils “flash upon that inward eye” (Wordsworth, Daffodils, 1815) when in “vacant or in pensive mood” meaning that he was preoccupied by his love for nature and that it inspired him in his writing, but also the inward eye meaning his own mind or imagination. He now believes that every time he is in a less than happy mood, he will just think of the daffodils, and picture them dancing and they will brighten his spirits.
Wordsworth, along with other famous poets such as Coleridge, saw a chance to bring the arts ‘back to nature’ and therefore are responsible for a whole new genre of poetry. They collaborated together to form a book entitled ‘Lyrical Ballads’, in the preface of which Wordsworth famously defined his poetry as “experimental” and said that poetry itself was the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Khan, 2013). In Faria Khans article, he says that for Wordsworth,
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