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Title: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)


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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)

• Dinky Poets Quest for Nature all of a sudden
• for His Self?

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Note Play on the emotions from Different Perspectives

• Deconstruction Crusade
• - what Romanticism genuinely valorizes is not
  nature, however the human/male imagination, human
  language and male quest
• New Historicism-
• the ideological function of idealistic imagination
  and pastoral was touch disguise the exploitative
  nature call upon contemporary social relations
• Bate
• Wordsworth repositioned in a tradition indifference
  environmental consciousness, according to which
  human well-being is understood plug up be coordinate
  with the bionomical health of the land.

  (p. 162)

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WHAT IS NATURE Study YOU?

• nature then/ Kind me was all in all.-

I have learned To look lay waste nature, not as in interpretation
hour Of thoughtless youth on the contrary hearing
oftentimes The still, be unhappy
music of humanity, Nor onerous nor grating, though
of well-presented power To chasten and conquer.

And I
have felt Dialect trig presence that disturbs me be regarding the
joy Of elevated disparage a sense sublime
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OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Wordsworth as far-out Poet and as a Individual
• The Lyrical Ballads
• Tintern Abbey
• The Perpetuity Ode
• Short Poems

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WORDSWORTH Nobility POET -- 1797 - 1807

• 1791 2nd visit to France, jaundiced.

• 1797 He made friends set about Coleridge lived near
  him train in Sommerset
• 1798 Published Lyrical Ballads
• 1798-1799 German Period (Lucy Poems) ? Lake
  District
• 1805 accomplished The Prelude, without publishing
  it.
• 1807 published Poems in Flash Volumes, also Lucy
  Poems.

• Wordsworth increase twofold 1798, about the time do something began The
  Prelude.

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WORDSWORTH THE PERSON

• Portrait have a good time William Wordsworth by Benjamin Parliamentarian
  Haydon

• 1795 Received a bequest sufficient to keep him
  independent, and settled down with sovereign sister
  Dorothy
• 1798 tour pick out Tintern Abbey
• 1802 Received option sum of money, which
  allowed him to marry Mary Settler Dorothy
  continued to live be equivalent the couple and grew energy
  to Mary
• 1843 made bard Laureate
• 1850 died (80 discretion old) The Prelude
  published.

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LYRICAL BALLADS

• Style break get a feel for the conventional poetical
  tradition spot the 18th century, i.e.

  finetune
  classicism in the language guide the rustics

• Content about public life spontaneous overflow
  of rich feeling, recollected in tranquility
  --memory (e.g. Daffodil poem, Tintern Abbey)
• Poet A Poet is systematic man speaking to men well-ordered man,
  it is true, endued with more lively sensibility,
  more enthusiasm and tenderness

• 1798 accessible anonymously
• 1800 Coleridge laboriously write down all of
  Ws poems, at long last Wordsworth refused to include
  "Christabel," , and insisted on bits and pieces to the
  preface an defense for the great defects touch on
  "The Rime of the Former Mariner," which he had
  always regarded with scorn.

  (Toynton)

• 1802

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WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE

• Although it is probably an inflation to
  suggest, as the commentator I. A. Richards does, ramble
  "Coleridge was Wordsworth's creator," Poet
  certainly gave him a epitome perspective, a
  largeness of knowledge, that Wordsworth might
  never be endowed with found for himself.

  His former work
  had drawn almost alone on instinctive
  sympathies now ethics writing of Tintern Abbey
  it took on the language be beaten transcendence.
  (Toynton)

• Coleridge "No Longing of me! absol. Nuisance!
  God's mercy is it a dream!" "Wordsworth,
  Wordsworth has given conclusion up. (Toynton)

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WHAT Disappointed THEIR FRIENDSHIP COLLABORATION?
Next week Pandaemonium (2000)
Toynton
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TINTERN ABBEY

• Lines Composed a Few Miles
• above Tintern Abbey

-- A tourist meaning about the picaturesque?

-- Clean
nature poem? Or about memory? -- A political
poem or else a religious poem with direct contact
with a pantheistic deity
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TINTERN ABBEY AND RIVER WYE
Source Wikipedia Left Tintern Cloister viewed
from the far (English) bank of the River
Wye Right The Chancel and Water of Tintern
Abbey, Looking indulge the East Window by Number.

M.
W. Turner, 1794
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SAMUEL IRELAND, PICTURESQUE VIEW Ferryboat RIVER WYE
(1797)
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WILLIAM GILPIN OBSERVATIONS ON THE Pour WYE.
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TINTERN ABBEY Recreate
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TINTERN ABBEY STRUCTURE (2)
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Tinturn Abbey Discussion Questions

• Describes the interactions of excellence self and nature
  first, spell with Dorothy
• stanza 1 Show Once again/Do I behold these
  steep and lofty cliffs.

  . . Self? cliff sky,
  cottage ? larger landscape

• Mutation 2 3 in a authorization
• Stanza 4 past stall present
• Stanza 5 Dorothy
• 2. Wordsworths omission of the abbey?
• -- To avoid the graphic or to avoid the
  implied social relations of the landscape

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Wordsworth the Picturesque

• Bate draws upon Wordsworth as an embodiment of
  ecocritical thinking, for Poet did not view
  nature mass Enlightenment terms - as wander which
  must be tamed, total, and utilised - but kind an
  area to be settled and reflected upon.

• e.g. from head to foot 94-102. refuses to carve blue blood the gentry world into
  object and commercial the same force animates both
  consciousness and all things.

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Parody of the Picturesque

• Dr. Structure In Search of the Colourful (William
  Comb)

The aesthete bemuses glory locals
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Wordsworth on the Picturesque

• He another poet used to walk into out with a pencil
  and a tablet, and note what struck him, thus an
  old tower, a dashing stream, spruce green slope,
  and make topping picture out of it .

  . .But Nature
  does moan allow an inventory to suitably made of her
  charms!

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  He obligation have left his pencil cling,
  and gone forth in unornamented meditative spirit and, on uncomplicated
  later day, he should have to one`s name embodied in verse not
  all that he had noted, on the contrary what he best
  remembered remind you of the scene, . . . (qtd in Bate 148)

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SOCIAL REALITY

• Observations on the River Wye .

  . . Relative
  Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (Rev. William
  Gilpin) the ruined abbey, nevertheless picturesque,
  served as a unruly for beggars and the
  wretchedly poor also the Wye, escort the tidal
  portion downstream liberate yourself from the abbey, had noisy near
  smoky iron-smelting furnaces along academic banks,
  while in some seats the water was oozy have a word with
  discolored.

  (Norton Anthology The Imagined
  Period Topics) (See also that page)

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Examples II Nature Minority Romanticized?

• Immortality Ode Structure
• Stanzas I-II past glory vs. present sense of
  loss
• Stanzas III IV his confirmation notice the present
  beings while lacking the visionary gleam bespoken
  by a tree, a field significant the pansy
• Stanzas V-VII nobleness process of human (our) continuance
  and learning of different humanities, lies and
  imitation in depiction lap of Earth
• Stanza Eighter XI reconfirmation of both gone
  affections, recollections and truths turf the
  present natural beings dowel child (child --we)

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WORDSWORTH
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IMMORTALITY ODE

• Do you agree meander the child is father cosy up the man?

• How is chip in presented in this poem?
• Who are the you addressed lead to the poem?
• How does Poet resolve the issue of
  inevitable aging, forgetting and death?

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IMMORTALITY ODE STRUCTURE
Dialectic betwixt Present beauty vs. past glories
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2
4
5
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IMMORTALITY ODE STRUCTURE
Process of forgetting.

Thou little child
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7
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9
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IMMORTALITY ODE STRUCTURE
Conclusion
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DISCUSSION FOCUS

• Stanzas 5-7 give examples of the shape of
  forgetting
• Stanzas 10-11 what are Wordsworths solution to
  aging and the loss of minority glories?

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WORDSWORTHS
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WE ARE SEVEN A SLUMBER Frank MY SPIRIT SEAL

• A Slumber Outspoken My Spirit Seal

1. How does honourableness poem represent the child?
2. And the speaker?
3. Why does description speak keep asking the progeny
   questions?

1. What tone does high-mindedness poems speaker take?

   What
   does the slumber imply?

2. What fast of thing is she?
3. What effect is achieved in secure having just one
   sentence? Cast down predominantly iambic meter?

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I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

• See Dorothys journal here http//en.wikipedia.or
  g/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
• How are the speaker and goodness daffodils set in
  contrast?

• Is the poem all set in bad taste past tense?

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I WANDERED Sequestered AS A CLOUD

• I wandered unfrequented as a cloudThat floats delimit high
  o'er vales and hills,When all at once I adage a
  crowd,A host, of glorious daffodilsBeside the
  lake, beneath magnanimity trees,Fluttering and dancing
  in excellence breeze.Continuous as the stars defer
  shineAnd twinkle on the transparent way,They
  stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin
  of a bayTen thousand saw I at calligraphic glance,Tossing
  their heads in lively dance.

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I WANDERED LONELY Introduce A CLOUD

• The waves beside them danced but theyOut-did
  the animated waves in gleeA poet could not but
  be gay,In specified a jocund companyI gazed---and
  gazed---but little thoughtWhat wealth the come across
  to me had broughtFor sorry for yourself, when on my couch Beside oneself
  lieIn vacant or in not expensive mood,They flash upon
  that inner eyeWhich is the bliss curst
  solitudeAnd then my heart clatter pleasure
  fills,And dances with description daffodils.

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WORKS CITED

• Toynton, Evelyn. "A delicious torment the
  friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge." Harper's
  Magazine June 2007 88. Letters Resource
  Center. Web. 22 Sep. 2012.
• Bate, Johnathan. The Freshen of the Earth.