William Wordsworth As A Romantic Poet

After reading and analyzing Wordsworth’s poem and Muir’s essay, I can see that both men use writing as a creative way to express their love for nature all around them.

Wordsworth talks about how nature is an escape, a teacher, a healer, a reminder, and so much more. Wordsworth explains his first time at the River Wye and that it was the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen and that the nature there is perfect. He also talks about his second trip in this poem to explain that the second time he went, he felt the nature there was more beautiful and tranquil. In “Tintern Abbey”, Wordsworth brings his sister, Dorothy his second time at the River Wye. Wordsworth says that he hopes the trip will be a reminder of how amazing nature truly is. Wordsworth talks about nature as a metaphor, saying nature is an anchor that holds him in place. Nature makes him calm, secure, and happy because he is in his favorite place. Wordsworth explains that nature makes him feel more alive than ever, and being back in the same beautiful spot five years later, makes it even better. The theme of “Tintern Abbey” shows that nature is many things like an escape for Wordsworth, which explains how much that nature has done for

The reason Wordsworth wrote this poem was to express the beauty of all nature and how we take its beauty for granted. He is wishing to convey that we should acknowledge nature because we are nature and nature is in all of use. Also that we should admire its beauty

          What does Wordsworth see when he 'sees into the life of things?'; Remember that in the lines leading up to his portrayal of the 'blessed mood'; that gives him sight, Wordsworth has been pointing to the power of human memory and reflection. And the importance of memory and reflection are made plain by the shifting time perspectives in the poem. The poem begins with the speaker on the banks of the Wye for the first time in five years. At first the poet emphasizes the way in which his present experience is similar to that of five years ago. More than once he tells us that 'again'; he has certain experiences in this secluded spot, a

Wordsworth stood on the cliff 'not only with the sense of 'present pleasure'; (63) but he joyfully anticipated the moments 'for future years'; (65). He came back to reality and began to analyze the situation after his reminiscing. Wordsworth realized that he had lost some guidance and was searching for the presence of nature when returning to the Wye. He remembered when he used to wander and roam as free as a roe but as he matured he felt content with tapping into his memories of his youth because as Wordsworth stated, 'That time is past? other gifts have allowed; for such loss, I would believe, abundant recompense'; (83-88). He realized that he was involved with more mature things in life because he had become more intelligent through the years and saw nature in the light of his intelligence. Yet, he insisted that he was 'still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and the mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth'; (102-105) but indeed, in a more composed way.

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

Throughout “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth shows his relationship with nature through his choice of diction, fantastic descriptions, and shifting mood of his poem. There are also many words and phrases that Wordsworth included into his poem that shows how he feels about nature. These phrases are well written, extremely descriptive, and show how Wordsworth is influenced by the wild: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils", “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance”, “The waves beside them danced; but they out-did the sparkling waves in glee”, “I gazed—and gazed—but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought”, and “For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye [...] and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” Another phrase, which indicates that the flowers were so beautiful that no true poet could be sad in their presence, also builds upon Wordsworth’s relationship with nature. These particular lines in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” show how Wordsworth’s mood shifts from somber and lonely to joyous and content. The lines also show how the gorgeousness of nature sticks with

Coleridge sees the effect the writings of the Romantic Era has on those who are not writers which make the assistance of memory and dreams in the writings much more significant. Along with Coleridge’s significance to the Romantic Era, William Wordsworth also contributed to the movement of memory and dreams in the writings of the Romantic Era.

In the Early nineteenth Century Romanticism, man sought for ways of becoming one with nature and the reaction against the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. With people like William Wordsworth, William Blake and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe motivated romanticism with their poems and writings. William Wordsworth, for instance, wrote a lot of poems as regards to nature, his values and how life and the natural world are closely interconnected to one another.

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”).

Again, he creates an unearthly and spiritual mood to emphasize nature as a dreamlike domain. By doing so, he recognizes the calming qualities of the natural world, and so takes time to recollect his experience with the daffodils. In addition to incorporating a transcendental register of diction, Wordsworth uses personification to develop the spiritual quality of nature.

   William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland, it’s part of the scenic region in north-west England called “The Lake District”. (Victorian web) It is important because as a Romantic poet, the nature that was around

Unlike any other poem of its time, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” depicts the struggle that the speaker faces between actual reality and the reality of a memory. Based on his real life experience of returning to the Wye after five years, William Wordsworth attempts to come to terms with how much he has changed and grown as a man in the poem ("Lines Composed" 248). Through the use of careful diction, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth describes the strong connection between nature and the development of man.

In the 'Advertisement' included in the 1798 edition of the lyrical ballads, Wordsworth explained why this project of his was an experiment

Where Wordsworth focused too on love and nature at first, he then took on more spiritual subjects. Further, if we assume that Wordsworth’s imitation of “The Retreat” was intentional, then Vaughan may have even been a poetic model (in some sense) for Wordsworth later in life. True, Wordsworth is not generally considered a religious poet; he would never have originally considered Vaughan a model because of the latter’s extreme religiosity. Yet if these two poems don’t echo in godly gestures per se, they do in a more spiritual sense—and perhaps Wordsworth, as a man confronted with his own mortality, found Vaughan’s treatise on the spirit’s immortality a sympathetic sentiment. Thus by comparing the two, we also might better understand Wordsworth’s poetic progression.