Biography of William Wordsworth

In this essay I hope to uncover the many instances that William Wordsworth inconspicuously places his mother into The Prelude and to explore the multimodal occurrence of paternal loss throughout the text. Although both of Wordsworth's parents perished while he was young in years, it seems that his mother, Ann Wordsworth, was the greatest influencer of his poetic artistry. The loss of Ann Wordsworth can be said to be a defining point in the young William Wordsworth's life, and have had more of an impact on him than the loss of his father. If any of Wordsworth's poetic artistry came from the influence of the loss of his parents, it was most likely from the anger he felt towards his mother's desertion of him and his siblings, rather than the guilt that he associated with his father's death.

In literature, themes shape and characterize an author’s writing making each work unique as different points of view are expressed within a writing’s words and sentences. This is the case, for example, of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death.” Both poems focus on the same theme of death, but while Poe’s poem reflects that death is an atrocious event because of the suffering and struggle that it provokes, Dickinson’s poem reflects that death is humane and that it should not be feared as it is inevitable. The two poems have both similarities and differences, and the themes and characteristics of each poem can be explained by the author’s influences and lives.

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

William Wordsworth existed in a time when society and its functions were beginning to rapidly pick up. The poem that he 'Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye', gave him a chance to reflect upon his quick paced life by taking a moment to slow down and absorb the beauty of nature that allows one to 'see into the life of things'; (line 49). Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'; takes you on a series of emotional states by trying to sway 'readers and himself, that the loss of innocence and intensity over time is compensated by an accumulation of knowledge and insight.'; Wordsworth accomplishes to prove that although time was lost along with his innocence, he

The ways death is approached and depicted in literature are diverse and numerous. Not unlike the ways different religions throughout the world and history have interpreted, and continue to interpret, this inevitable phenomenon, art and literature offer a wide variety of views as to what happens after death and what dying means. Of course, there are some common threads and themes associated with dying that are frequently seen and used, both in prose and in poetry. The tropes of death are familiar and common, but each writer still brings its own vision and frames it in its own personal way. Ernest Dowson and Dylan Thomas are two writers who, while not separated by a long period of time, came from very different period and wrote in different literary movements. Despite those differences, they share some similarities in the way they chose to depict and portray death in their poetry. In the poems Do Not Go Gentle Into

The 17th-century poet Angelus Silesius once wrote, “How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.” This realization that human life is ephemeral and insignificant as compared to nature is a prevalent theme throughout poetry, for poets often worry that they will never achieve recognition or will inevitably fade from society’s memory with time and hope to immortalize themselves through written language. Shakespeare himself once wrote about the power of the “eternal lines to time” that allows the beauty of his mistress to live on long past her death

These poems are both about death and facing it in different ways. Lord Tennyson's poem is about facing the onward and inevitable fact

Towards the middle of the 1770s, William Wordsworth was born on April 7th in Cockermouth, England into a middle-class family as the second born out of five children (“William Wordsworth”). His mother and father worked upon very wealthy families to make a living, and provide their children with a respectable life and a pleasant home (“William Wordsworth”). For instance, “His father John Wordsworth, was a legal agent to wealthy landowners and his mother came into the marriage from a conventionally respectful merchant family” (“William Wordsworth”). Although, Wordsworth did not typically express many descriptions about his parents, he felt very close to his father because of the poetry they shared and studied upon together (“William Wordsworth”).

Interlaced throughout these poems, one theme is shared, and that theme is how longing slowly turns into death over time. As poets often ask readers to examine more closely the relationship between seemingly opposite themes. Specifically, poems by Agran, Dunbar, Keats, and Stevens explore the tension between desire and death. “Black Umbrellas” is about a ‘new start’ in life while “Why Fades a Dream” is about having a dream and putting it to action. “This Living Hand” is about enjoying the time you are alive and not taking life for granted ,however; “The Brave Man” is about a man that is personified as a sun and going through fears in his life. Poetry, poetry is a literary work in which is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens

Born in the late 1770s, Wordsworth’s life was plagued with disaster and death from an early age. At the age of 7, his mother passed away, and his beloved sister Dorothy was sent to live with relatives. At the age of 13, his father became deathly ill after climbing through the mountains, passing away a few days later. After all this horror had passed, Wordsworth found himself sitting on a boat on a lake. It was here that Wordsworth realised the power and awe of nature, and how he too was at Her mercy. These experiences shaped the way Wordsworth wrote his poetry, and the way in which he sought inspiration. Writers of the Romantic Era tended to focus on three specific genres: childhood, the environment, and industrialisation. Generally, the themes written about had a sense of loss, of damage to the human spirit. The poem The World Is Too Much With Us expresses Wordsworth’s anger and frustration at his world; at this point in history, the Industrial Revolution had swept through Europe, creating factories and

Robert Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson are celebrated authors and poets in the field of field of literature. A deeper analysis of some of their works displays particular similarities and distinct differences that make each one of them unique. For instance, Browning’s My Last Duchess and Tennyson’s Ulysses show similarities in the overall theme, death, but each brings it out in different styles. This essay explains the comparison of the two poems in detail and the respective significance of use of stylistic devices.

Keats, on the other hand, uses the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” to express his perspective on art by examining the characters on the urn from either an ideal or realistic perspective. In the beginning, Keats asks questions regarding the “mad pursuit” (9, p.1847) of the people on the Grecian urn. As the Grecian urn exists outside of time, Keats creates a paradox for the human figures on the urn because they do not confront aging but neither experience time; Keats then further discusses the paradox in the preceding stanzas of the poem. In the second and third stanza, Keats examines the picture of the piper playing to his lover “beneath the trees” (15, p.1847) and expresses that their love is “far above” (28, p.1848) all human passion. Even though

The Romantic Movement of literature in England sparked a rapid change in the common themes of writings produced by the nation’s most renowned authors and poets. Writers often explored more subjective topics such as the effect of nature on the individual rather than the chemistry of the mind, a topic of greater importance to philosophers of the Enlightenment. Onto the open stage of this newly flourishing literary movement stepped William Wordsworth, at that time only a young man in his twenties or thirties. Wordsworth would soon become a highly influential poet in this literary era as well as during several political eras that occurred in his lifetime both in England and the rest of Europe. His presence during such a lengthy period of rapid change both in literature and other aspects of society made Wordsworth more than just a great composer of verse. While his poems retain their value as great reads to this day, Wordsworth serves as a portal into the thoughts of people living in his time period. The subject matter of his poetry reveals what issues held the most importance for writers and other citizens of England at the time and the way in which contemporary politics may have affected writers including Wordsworth.

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a English Romantic poet. Wordsworth’s earliest poetry was “published in 1793 in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. In 1795 he met Samuel Coleridge” (Encyclopedia.com), and produced Lyrical Ballads first published in 1978, it is largely credited as the work that begain the English Romantic movement. In the third edition of Lyrical Ballads published in 1802 the “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads was added to the poems and on page 242, Wordsworth gave his now famous poetry definition as being "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility". In 1798 The Prelude, perhaps one of the greatest works of English literature was first published. It is a long autobiographical poem that is a personal history of the growth of Wordsworth’s own mind. It was a constant work in progress, with Wordsworth working on it until his death in 1850.