Examples Of The Sublime In Tintern Abbey

By connecting, considering and concluding the response gained from literary works, the reader can obtain a deeper, analytical understanding of these techniques and tools used by the authors of the various literature forms. For this assignment, I have chosen to compare and contrast two separate literary works from “Journey into Literature” (Clugston, 2010), with similar themes. . The poems I will discuss are “The

Wordsworth’s famous and simple poem, “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” expresses the Romantic Age’s appreciation for the beauty and truth that can be found in a setting as ordinary as a field of daffodils. With this final stanza, Wordsworth writes of the mind’s ability to carry those memories of nature’s beauty into any setting, whether city or country. His belief in the power of the imagination and the effect it can have on nature, and vice a versa, is evident in most of his work. This

Sublime, as the keyword that guides the two major poems, “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth and “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” by John Keats, has helped both authors to express their genuine feelings. The word “sublime” is used when you have a great respect and a sense of excellence for something; “Of such excellence”, the feeling of awesome. The feeling awesome has a root word of “awe”, which means the feeling of respect for fear or wonder. The word can also be used to describe the deeper understanding of beauty, beyond human understanding. Both “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, depict different aspects of sublimity. In “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, it often relates sublimity with Nature; On the other hand, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, the author of the poem demonstrates how Keats feels sublime on while reading the English translation by Chapman of Homer’s poem.

The Romantic period, a time that writers such as Wordsworth and Shelley focused their writing in the centre of life and social importance. An important aspect of 'Romanticism: its emphasis upon the power and terrors of the inner imaginative life ' (Watson, 2012, p. 1). The Prelude celebrates Wordsworth 's life retained through memories and with the act of remembering, depicting emotions and experiences. Whereas, Shelley and the 'Ode to the West Wind ' engaged his audience with inner and outer lives situations, ideas and elements of nature that represent his own position and ideas. This essay will compare and contrast Wordsworth recollections and Shelley dramatizations of the 'powers and terrors of the inner imaginative life '. Also considering, rhyme scheme, stanza forms, the reasons for the use of assonance and alliteration, and other poetic techniques. Finally, how do these effects relate to the main question.

The strange elegance of this specter looms in the relief, in the archaic layers of Song of Myself. It is beyond the foregrounded inversive space--at times utopic and sublime, the space is permeated with universal brotherhood, happiness, the "compelled-sentimental"-- that I attempt to delve into, that source from which generates the repulsive, hidden quivering of a text which, though cast out and forced into absence, looms in the shadowed relief. The edification of his text and of his readership is attempted through the construction of an inversive space which refigures the sublime: the apex of the "cultured." I have chosen those moments in the text in which the poet nears the threshold of bordering abject in order to construct his sublime utopian vision. It is here, this marked refigurement where ecstasy occurs, where material which triggers the sublime is the signal of another text; a repulsive reading looms from the absence of abjection

“In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth fears the loss of his genial spirit and seems to be worried about his poetic ability. Similarly, Coleridge, in Dejection, admits that his poetic originality is at stake” (Magnuson 15). In the forth stanza, Wordsworth writes, “Nor perchance / If I were not thus taught, should I the more / Suffer my genial spirits to decay” (113-115). Likewise, Coleridge, in the third stanza, writes, “My genial spirits fail” (39). Actually, both Coleridge and Wordsworth admit that they have been facing problems with nature. In the beginning of the third stanza, one can feel the sad tone of Wordsworth’s poem. The poet tells us how he lost part of his feelings toward nature. His ideas become “dim” and “faint.” He writes, “And now with gleams of half extinguished thought, / With many recognitions dim and faint, / And somewhat of a sad perplexity” (59-61). He cannot feel nature the same way he used to do as a child. Describing the way he was as a child, the poet says, “I cannot paint / What I was then” (76-77). Similarly, Coleridge asserts that he used to view nature differently as a child. In the beginning of the sixth stanza, he says, “There was a time when, though my path was rough, / This joy within me dallied with distress, / And all misfortunes were but the stuff”

William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” explores the relationship of the narrator (presumably Wordsworth) with the unchanging, pastoral landscape of Tintern Abbey, as well as that with his sister. Wordsworth uses diction to show that during his youthful days, he fervently enjoyed this natural scene with a childlike innocence, but now older, he struggles to see the same scene in the same light and instead, with effort, views the landscape in a more emotional, chastening, and sad manner. Although not mentioned until the end, his sister is the object of the poem and the true source of his happiness. Through setting and diction, Wordsworth argues that the nature of the human mind turns the pure joys of childhood bliss into melancholy reflections

Wordsworth is known for his introspection, often writing about feelings and emotions, mortality and nature. Wordsworth’s The Prelude is a seminal work. The poem is about the growth of the poet’s mind. It is autobiographical and deals with different periods of Wordsworth’s life, such as his childhood, his time at Cambridge and his residence in France. The poem features Wordsworth reflecting on his experiences and feelings. The poem acts as a look into how he views himself as a poet. In The Politics of the Epic: Wordsworth, Byron, and the Romantic Redefinition of Heroism, author Paul Cantor contends that despite the use of epic writing, the poem itself is vastly different from the epic. “It is written in an elevated blank verse that often has a Miltonic ring, it contains epic diction and epic similes, and it shows many other signs of Wordsworth 's attempt to work within the established epic tradition. But if one looks at the beginning of the poem, where the epic poet traditionally invokes his Muse, one can see how radically Wordsworth differs from his predecessor” (Cantor, 377). The poem, Miltonic in its style and diction, does seem to mimic the Miltonic epic style, at least somewhat. This does not mean, however, that

This notions of the sublime, is one of the most central concepts explored in the works of the romantic, and arguably, the most principle. Largely a reaction and a revolt against the stifling social order and grey confines of reason and technology that followed it, the Romantics valued

Many times throughout The Prelude, and especially in his musings on the imagination and the One Mind in Book VI, Wordsworth contrasts his earlier use of the picturesque with his later use of the sublime, which itself

British literature is constantly evolving. This became overwhelmingly apparent in the survey of literature from the varying literary periods analyzed in English III. The reason for such is the ever-changing nation in which the authors lived. The stark differences in life during the Renaissance and Romantic Era resulted in authors’ writing with the intention to convey different themes. Specifically, one key theme of the Renaissance was the role of God in people’s lives, which manifests itself in John Donne’s sermon “Meditation 17” was well as John Milton’s poem “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent.” In the Romantic Era, one theme around which writers tended to focus was the beauty and power of nature. This theme is overwhelmingly clear in William Wordsworth’s poem “The World Is Too Much with Us” and Percy Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind.”

William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" celebrates imagination and emotion over rationality and reason, and intuition over science. It is the beginning of English Romanticism in the 1800's and Wordsworth was one of the leading poets of that era. He introduced the readers to grasp nature and fully appreciate all aspects of it. "Tintern Abbey" focuses on Wordsworth's nostalgic experience on returning to the Abbey, but pays much attention to the poem's theme of emotional beauty and nature. In this poem, the reader finds Wordsworth's intense and loving memory of natural scenes.

The figure of Wordsworth in an arrogant standing posture must have become a fixture in Keats’s mind. In the “Camelion Poet” letter written about eight months after “On Edmund Kean,” Wordsworth once again appears in a standing posture: in what has become a staple of a formula of Wordsworth criticism, namely “the Wordsworthian or egotistical sublime,” Keats gives the definition of a thing per se and stands alone.(387) In “Edmund Kean,” Keats mentions Wordsworth by name with the immediate follow-up of from all his comrades he stands alone and his standing alone-ness is seen more in the light of the arrogance of one who is totally self-absorbed. Also in Keats’s choice of words there is cunning, even playful, tone of mockery. Keats makes an allusion

Perhaps one of the most contentious trends in literature at present, the Sublime continues to spark debate among today’s Romantic writers, poets and philosophers based on the variety of idiosyncratic possible definitions and interpretations posed by first generation romantics as well as today’s leading Romantics. Many of these writers have determined that the Sublime is a concept that should be studied or contemplated, however this is no easy task as it is a concept of utmost complexity. The sublime has been described in a variety of ways, whether it be a “quality of art that excites the ideas of power and danger” as stated by Edmund Burke or a symbol of the infinite. To put it into simpler terms, it represents the minds creativity and the

Good evening, welcome to the progress of poetry. Following from last weeks program ‘the eternal songs- of William Blake- tonight’s show Wordsworth’s mind on nature will interpret how: William Wordsworth represented the cultural assumptions, attitudes and ideas, through two of his most beautiful pieces daffodils and the world is too much with us, within the romantic era. The Romantics believed that the centre of change was through the ‘common man’; as to begin, begin – the Romantic revolution unfolded.