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    Wordsworth, however, shows both sides of nature. He does show nature as gentle when he talks about “sleeping flowers” (7) and when he talks about the “Sea that bares her bosom to the moon” (5). He talks about nature as frightening and dangerous when he says

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    The Age of Wordsworth (1798-1832) is considered to have begun with the joint publication of Lyrical Ballads by the ‘Lake Poets’, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.   The poetry of this age witnessed altering of the theme from public and impersonal to subjective. Common people and common things were given the most importance. Depiction of countryside, rural life, pastoral life and Nature was common. The subject of the poetry switched from facts, reasons to the world of imagination, passion

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    Representations of Time: Wordsworth and Constable I do not know how without being culpably particular I can give my Reader a more exact notion of the style in which I wished these poems to be written, than by informing him that I have at all times endeavored to look steadily at my subject; consequently, I hope that there is in these Poems little falsehood of description, and my ideas are expressed in language fitted to their respective importance. Something I must have gained by this practice

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    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. William Wordsworth was born in Northwest England

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    interpretations as a way to express inner beliefs about the human mind or imagination. Like mentioned in class, Wordsworth begins with his alienation experiences in Prelude 1 and concludes with his adjustment statements in Prelude 11 and 13 and Keats’ development within The Fall shows the start of a happy innocence into a rather painful maturity. Like mentioned above, Wordsworth writes The Prelude as a tool in which to show exactly how youthful memories are able to be turned into something

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    In the words of Thomas Edison, solitude is when, one does their best thinking. The importance of solitude can further be divulged into by Franz Kafka’s words that writing is the ultimate source of utter solitude, it acts as a welcome reprieve. Another of William Wordsworth’s contemporaries, Lord Byron was of the opinion that letter writing was the ultimate way of merging good company with solitude. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s renowned essay “Self-Reliance” he surmises that it is quite easy to dwell

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    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

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    The Romantic Era was filled with artist and writers using nature as their muse in their writing and paintings, and William Wordsworth was the embodiment of this era. William Wordsworth’s work  Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was the begin of the literary portion of the Romantic Era. Wordsworth developed a love for nature at an early age, which provided as Wordsworth’s muse for many of his poems like “The World is Too Much with Us” and “Lines Written in Early Spring”. Wordsworth’s

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    William Wordsworth conveys an unique joy through verse. It is a delight which includes information and good truths, which would illuminate and lift up the peruser's sentiments. Verse ought to try to bring about a significant improvement, smarter and more content. The capacity of verse is to spread the message of co-relationship and affection. Wordsworth is exceptionally viewed as a writer of Nature. Nature is a wellspring of knowledge and he is an extraordinary supporter of this hypothesis. For him

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    Two talented literary authors William Wordsworth and John Muir express their emotions towards through their writing; their belletristic stories depict how their experiences with nature positively impacted their lives while giving them constant memories that will stay with them forever. Both Wordsworth and Muir used syntax and diction to verbalize their passionate relationship towards nature. In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth writes of a lonely day while out for a walk; until he

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