And Then There Were Three

“Fill your paper with breathings of your heart.” William Wordsworth was a poet who not only inspired himself, but also inspired a number others. As some may know he was a son, brother, and a father. But most importantly, he was a famous poet. He never once let his rough and tragic lifetime get in the way of his creative writing.

Poetry is comprised of many forms and within each form, poets have created; stanzas, rhythm, images, symbolism, meter and meanings. Readers must read each poem and begin inductive reasoning to understand what is written. In using this reasoning, only then can the poem be explained. There are many different types of forms and a ballad is one of these poetic forms. It is usually made up of a basic construction of quatrain stanzas. The lines contain rhyme, and generally tell a story that can be compared to a song. In analyzing, Peter and John by Elinor Wylie, We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks, Riverbanks Blues by Sterling A. Brown and The Cherry-tree Carol, author unknown, meanings are conveyed through their use of form, rhyme and the story

The poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 1, July 1798” is deeply rooted in its author’s personal history. It was written by the poet William Wordsworth after taking a walking tour along the Welsh Borders with his sister, Dorothy. In the summer of 1973, Wordsworth visited North Wales when he was still quite young and anxious, with the world on his shoulders. He was, at that time, still new in his profession, with very radical political views, as well as an estranged father to an illegitimate child in France. He was only twenty-three years old then. Five years later, when he returned to

Wordsworth seems to be reminiscing his last visit to the Tintern Abbey. He is well aware of the amount of the time that has passed by that he last visited, it is as though it has been a torture for him being away so long. His vivid descriptions of the Tintern Abbey solely come from the memory of his last visit. There is a sense of longing to be there by the way he is able to remember the sound of the “water rolling from their mountain-springs” or laying down under a sycamore tree while taking in the view (Wordsworth, line 3-12). These memories he carries with him have provided him with “sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and

"Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" is about how we change over time and the realization of it. The speaker in this compares the person he used to be and the person he became. The speaker, remembers almost every detail from the past of Tintern Abbey that he used to visit. Wordsworth uses imagination by describing everything the speaker remembers what he saw and heard. From the sound of the "mountain-springs" (3), "this dark sycamore" (10), and the "hedge rows" (14). These memories make him realize he has been cooped up in the city. The speaker claims these memories kept him sane while living in "the din/ Of towns and cities" (25-26).

William Wordsworth’s lyrical ballad, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” illustrates the connection between the speaker and an Abbey he visits frequently in his memory. Wordsworth’s ballad takes place during the Industrial Revolution, a time in which the speaker’s way of life is drastically changing from the nature-rich life he experienced before moving into the city. The Abbey is the one place that the speaker is able to relive his memories prior to his city-life. Therefore, the speaker finds himself reminiscing on his memory of the Abbey as a way to remember this significant chapter in his life.

Wordsworth, considered the greatest Romantic poet. Going against traditional poetry with his good friend Coleridge which was proper style, proper words, with subject matter. They defied it the used witty figures of speech, effusive praise with tragic complaints, oh the audacity. Since they did this though they helped build the Romanticism Movement. One of Wordsworth’s poems is Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey or for short Tintern Abbey. This poem is about Wordsworth’s trip after 5 long years back to an old, abandoned Abbey in Wales with his sister Dorothy. He tells us about the present of being there, to the past when he first came to this abandoned Abbey, back to the present talking to his sister about it and the future.

Both poems assert in their own ways that we are indelibly at the mercy of learning from nature and bending to its influence. Our five senses allow us to experience it, but more than that we also receive emotional stimulation as well. “Tintern Abbey” achieves an essence of the sublime by memory sustained and perfected through the combined power of the human mind (especially one of poetic fancy) and nature’s beautiful force—something of meditation. Wordsworth

“ ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is simply a tale of crime and punishment.”

In conclusion, William Wordsworth is one of the best romantic poets; actually he established the romanticism in the English literature. Now, we can say that the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is the pest representation of romantic poetry. It contains most of the characteristics of good romantic poetry. Such characteristics as subjectivity, the love of nature, love of beauty, and joyful memories of the past. In addition, Wordsworth was influenced by his Sister Dorothy who inspired him to write many of his poems. We can always find a source for William’s

The poem’s form is an intriguing measure of analysis, and Cowper adopts the form of a loose lyric poem, which works with the rhyming couplets to create an emotional response from the reader. Lyric poetry is a ‘‘formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person’’. This type of poetry was the dominant form of English poetry

In the next stanza, Pound extracts from a poem named “The Peacock” which was “published in Poetry, May 1914 was written by Yeats” (Terrell 462). Yeats who wanted to be away from London for a while, asked Pound to be his secretary. In the stanza “Wordsworth” refers to the volumes which Pound was supposed to read as a part of his secretarial duties because Yeats’ eyes were weak (Terrell 462). Life with Yeats in a four-room Sussex cottage was pleased and tranquil. He described life at Stone Cottage nostalgically as follows:

Poets, as well as critics, have defined poetry differently; the following are some suggested definitions of Poetry by famous Poets: William Wordsworth defines it as “poetry is the imaginative expression of strong feeling; usually rhythmical...the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility.” Edgar Allan Poe defines poetry of words “as the rhythmical creation of beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge illustrates poetry as “the proper and immediate object of Science is the acquirement or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of Poetry is the communication of pleasure.” Edwin Arlington Robinson mentiones “Poetry is the language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be

Literary ballads is considered the seminal inspirational work of literary romanticism in Britain. The publication of Lyrical Ballads represented a turning point for English poetry. Though the book was not originally received as a radical experiment, it was rather controversial for its time. Being released straight during the French revolution which was seen as a social experiment in itself. Coleridge encouraged Wordsworth to write a preface to Lyrical Ballads which would explain the work contained within the collection.

Upon the very first reading of William Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting The Banks of The Wye During a Tour, 13th July 1798’, one comes across the theme of memory and Wordsworth’s love for nature ( themes frequently explored by Wordsworth in several of his poems). However, both these themes work in an inter-connected and intertwined manner in the said poem.