Essay about 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.

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

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. He received schooling in all subjects including art education.

In many ways, Yusef and William Wordsworth are alike. Their writing styles were simple and used everyday language in their poetry. Both make several references to nature and colors, providing to their readers on the nature of life and their connections to it.

William Butler Yeats was the major figure in the cultural revolution which developed from the strong nationalistic movement at the end of the 19th century. He dominated the writings of a generation. He established forms and themes which came to be considered as the norms for writers of his generation.

The restoration era of theatre was a unique period of time for iconic practitioners and actors to revitalise the love for drama after an 18 year ban enforced by the reign of the Puritans, one of these practitioners being William Wycherley. Wycherley was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, just a year before the Puritans took thrown of the English Parliament in 1642. He grew up with his family as middle class citizens with an exceptional property until he was 15 where Wycherleys parents figured it would be that his son would get his education outside of their home town and therefore sent him off to France where he would grow up to become one of the most recognisable comedic writers of the late 17th century. He received his education in Charente,

In The Thorn the story begins by describing Martha Ray, sitting by a thorn on a hill. Martha is in misery from being left at the altar from her love Stephen Hill. “ Oh misery! oh misery ! Oh woe is me! Oh misery!”(Wordsworth 284), “ And they had fixed a wedding day, The morning of that must wed them both; But Stephen to another Maid Had sworn another oath;” (285). At the same time Martha was pregnant, and as a result of being an unmarried woman with a child, she later killed the child. “ But

Wordsworth is an high English poet and an establishing member of the Romantic Movement in the English literature. He lived and wrote at the period between 1770–1850 which is “the golden era of romanticism”. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth poetry and personality also were greatly influenced by his love for the nature, especially by the spectacles and views of the Lake Country area, where he spent most of his life in nature. Wordsworth is sincere thinker; he showed high tenderness and a love of nature and simplicity. Two persons affected him personally and literary, his sister Dorothy and the great romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. William Wordsworth's poem "I wondered lonely as a cloud" or “the Daffodil” is one of the most well-known

During the late 17th and early 18th centuries the style of poetry changed drastically. Poets shifted their focus away from the audience and concentrated on the internal self. This created the expressive, lyric poetry we now recognize as typical of Romanticism. William Wordsworth is one of the most famous of the Romantics, as well as author of "It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free." Written in 1807 after a trip to France to visit his daughter, "It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free" focuses on Wordsworth's view of nature and childhood as essentially divine.

The reason I’ve chosen Report to Wordsworth as one of my poems to talk about is because it shows the relationship between people and nature, but in this poem it isn’t a good relationship between them because in the poem it talks about how we have damaged the Earth. In the poem it also has personification where the poet has personified Nature as a woman the poet has also used similes and metaphors.

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.

I will now discuss William Wordsworth’s view of London and his background. William Wordsworth did not grow up in London, so he did not know the hardships of growing up there. Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District and moved to London when he was an adult, he was also a lot richer than Blake so he moved to the higher class part of London. He did not see London though the same eyes as Blake.

William Wordsworth was a British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballad in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Biographical Perspective of William Wordsworth can be presented multiply ways such as childhood experience, education, marriage, friendship, travels, career, and publication.

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.

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.