Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April in 1770 Cockermouth England. William was the second of five children his parents their parents were John and Ann words worth. is closest of the siblings was Dorothy mainly because they were back together which marks the beginning of a lifelong friendship. William was usually very intense. William had a very unfortunate bumpy childhood. His mother died when he was 8 while his father worked as a lawyer for the Earl of a loser he was known for being the

“The earth has its music for those who will listen” said by George Santayana is apt for William Wordsworth as most of his poems explore the wonders of nature. He is often called as a nature writer and his love for nature is beyond measure. As a child, he spent most of his time in nature’s lap in Lake District, and thus was greatly affected by everything that happened in nature. Nature enjoys a distinct and important status in his poetry and his poems are greatly influenced by what he saw and felt

important when discussing the textual changes between the original and revised versions of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (it is unexpected Wordsworth would revise his texts as he was at the forefront of the idea that “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” and that “it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity” William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1800. However, from a structuralist perspective, we should forget about the poet when analysing his work and

anyone fully understand why people go for walks through the woods to try to relax? William Wordsworth believed that nature was a key that unlocked the soul trapped in the human body. In his poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” he described how free his soul felt when immersed in nature. Wordsworth loved nature and wanted the rest of the human race to become conscious of nature’s charm on the human soul. Wordsworth explained how he wanted humans to become more involved in nature by using peaceful metaphors

An Explication of William Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey June 13, 1798”. In the poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour William Wordsworth seems to be drunken from nostalgia as he revisits his not entirely distant past. “His passion for the landscape is physical, taken in through his eyes, unmediated by more abstract (or spiritual) thought (Pearson n.p)”. As he stands over the lush farmland, not yet ripe, he describes a familiar but missed

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born October 21, 1772, Ottery St. Mary, United Kingdom and was the tenth child of John Coleridge, a vicar and schoolmaster, and Ann Bowden Coleridge, which was John’s second wife. As a child, he was quite the opposite of the other young boys because while they were outside horse playing he was in the house reading and usually kept to himself. When Samuel was ten years old, his father died and was sent to Christ's Hospital, a boarding school in London

Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth is a poem that works from the simple to the complex. William Wordsworth is a generation one romantic poet. The poems are meant to be short and brief, but the poem Tintern is quite a bit longer. This poem by Wordsworth was written in 1798, during his second visit to the valley of the River Wye and what’s left of Tintern Abbey, which was once a great medieval church, in Wales. Wordsworth hasn’t visited Tintern Abbey in five years, and this

The Way Wordsworth and Heaney Present Nature and Rural Life in Their Poetry Born 1770, in Cockermouth, William Wordsworth spent his early life and many of his formative years attending a boys' school in Hawkshead, a village in the Lake District. As can be seen in his poetry, the years he spent living in these rural surroundings provided many of the valuable experiences Wordsworth had as he grew up. At the age of 17, Wordsworth moved south to study at Saint John's College

one of Wadsworth’s most famous poems, and at its printing, the book was completely sold out in two years. The name of the poem reflects the inspiration Wadsworth felt upon visiting the ruins of an old church called Tintern Abbey, with his sister Dorothy. During his young adulthood, Wadsworth took numerous

age of 7, his mother passed away, and his beloved sister Dorothy was sent to live with relatives. At the age of 13, his father became deathly ill after climbing through the mountains, passing away a few days later. After all this horror had passed, Wordsworth found himself sitting on a boat on a lake. It was here that Wordsworth realised the power and awe of nature, and how he too was at Her mercy. These experiences shaped the way Wordsworth wrote his poetry, and the way in which he sought inspiration