William Wordsworth 's Lyrical Ballads

To achieve this goal, I have divided the poem into three parts in order to explain how they all relate to the first stanza and to paint a simple picture for understanding this great work. The first section represents a folktale styled intro, introduces us to the personality of the subject of the poem and her relationship to her environment as seen

“Lyrical Ballads” established such a new theory of poetry that it is used to mark the end of the Neo-Classical period of literature and the beginning of the Romantic period. One of the most touching pieces of poetry in the collection is William Wordsworth’s “What is a Poet?” This poem spoke to the core of my being and broke down barriers that I had been building in my mind years. It had such powerful effects on me because, I have always enjoyed the beauty of poetry but my relationship with it has dealt mostly with the rhythm in rhyme. I’ve been performing live with musicians at open mics for eight years now. I never enjoyed being called a rapper and I never considered myself an actual poet because, I have no recordings nor published poetry to show for. Even though poetry has always been a part of my life, I’ve consider it more of a personal release than my life’s work. In “What is a Poet”, William Wordsworth described the poetic soul with such depth and accuracy that while I read it, I became completely aware of the fact that I am a true poet. I have lived with this art form and chased the freedom in it for years because recording has always felt so slavish and mechanical. William Wordsworth’s ability to reflect upon his own poetry and the practice of poetry in general was absolutely astounding. In this poem he expressed the qualities of a poet, the obligations of a poet, and the common sentiments of poets alike with such perspective that every word still profoundly

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

“Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the planning and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head, and her lips were parted”, this is the first time we are shown her true self –

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

I Wander Lonely As a Cloud by William Wordsworth is a poem about a beautiful area near a bay that is full of golden daffodils. The author tells the story from memory, and thinks about this place from their couch, and it brings them joy. Although the poem is great from the surface, there is so much more going on inside of it. There are forms, different kinds of language, imagery, themes and a setting that are all hidden within the poem. Through this analysis I will be bringing these different aspects to light.

While the images of nature are continued with “stubble so brittle”, there is still some connotation of small growing figures. Tree stubbles are short with easy access to be climbed and played upon. It is a small innocent figure that goes along with the speaker’s love for children. While commenting about how she is not acquainted with “women or men” children do seem to be the most important of all people, because in concept they are untainted by the sad truths of reality and the horrors that come with being alive. As the speaker describes nature to be a beautiful thing, her attitudes towards children are the same. This description of roaming freely is contrasted when the speaker shifts the poem to how different it is to the present. Children and childhood are of the past, yet she must deal with adulthood in the present. However, she has not changed. Passing down this knowledge, the speaker states, “it is custom or fate that has made you the creature you are” giving advice that while we change places and stages in life, our memories and background are who we are.

William Wordsworth was a prolific poet of the Romantic movement, perhaps best known for publishing Lyrical Ballads with friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798. These poems were written in what Wordsworth described as a ‘common tongue’ with a focus on themes often found in Romantic poetry, such as the pastoral, the mythical, fragmentation, heroism and satire. In Lyrical Ballads one recurring subject almost unique to Wordsworth in its passion and persistence is that of motherhood. The connection between womanhood and nature make it a frequently explored theme for many poets, such as Blake in his Songs of Innocence. However, I have chosen to focus on Wordsworth since motherhood is not only examined at great length in

Wordsworth starts of the poem in a sad and depressed mood. He is not happy as he is walking alone without any purpose. Nothing around him seems beautiful to him, and he seems lonely and sad. To show this mood, Wordsworth uses a simile. We see this in the first line when he writes, “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. Wordsworth is comparing himself to a cloud, something that floats in the air. By comparing himself to a cloud, we can see that Wordsworth has

Even though the young child is gone, there is still belief that Lucy is alive and sings her solitary song in the valley: “—Yet some maintain that to this day;/She is a living child;/ That you may see sweet Lucy Gray:” (57-59) “— And sings a solitary song;/ That whistles in the wind” (63-64). In this poem, William does not stress about the death of Lucy but after her death that she becomes one with nature. This poem being a narrative balled is important to Wordsworth and how he presents this story as a poem because William himself is a poet of nature, and makes it very apparent in the way that he presents this ballad as he tries to connect the action of death to nature.

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart,” these are the words of William Wordsworth, an English Romantic Poet that helped pave the way for Romanticism in the early nineteenth century. John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, also English Romantic Poets, were influenced by Wordsworth’s works. All are known for their many beautiful and revolutionary poems. They allowed influences of life and their surroundings to contribute to their works of art. The challenges of life create a pathway to creative imagination.

How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism? Q. How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism? A. Romantic poetry was an artistic movement of the late 18th and early 19th century. It dealt with nature, human imagination, childhood and the ability to recall emotional memories of both happiness and sadness.

In the poem, while the girl is trying to explain to the man what she means by they are seven she uses the word “lie”. When the man was trying to understand her, he uses the word “laid”. To the girl, the bodies of her siblings lie there but their spirits will continue to live on, but the man uses “laid” to emphasize that they are dead and gone. When he is telling how each sibling died, she never used the word death. When her sister Jane passed away, she described it as, “God released her of her pain; / And then she went away.(51-52)” When her brother John died, she described it as,” My brother John was forced to go, / And he lies by her side.(59-60)”. The phrases “forced to go” and “she went away” are carefully chosen words. They are not negative connotations, these are alternative to the word and an alternative outlook for

My essay will be on Wordsworth's poem, "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud", which was originally published in 1807. The poem was revised twice and the version we have was finally published in 1815. (Wordsworth's Daffodils) According to Biography.com, Wordsworth's mother died when he was seven and he was an orphan by age 13. He was sent off to boarding school, and upon completion he enrolled in St. John's College in Cambridge. Before his final semester of college, he set off on a walking tour of Europe, where he encountered the aftermath of the French Revolution. During his time in France, Wordsworth met and fell in love with Annette Vallon, who became pregnant, with his daughter. In 1793, after the declaration of war between France and England, he returned to England without his girlfriend and child. Upon his return to England, he was penniless and alone and these were some of the darkest times of his life. In 1795 he was reunited with his sister, Dorothy, and that is when his poetry took a turn from dark and gloomy to light hearted and jovial. (Encyclopedia Britannica) While I believe that the loneliness he experienced after his parents' death, the loss of his girlfriend and child were catalysts in the writing of this poem, it is believed that his sister Dorothy was actually the true inspiration.(Encyclopedia Britannica) In reading this poem I feel that Wordsworth' use of symbolism invokes feelings of both loneliness and hope. Wordsworth uses several techniques, such