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Title: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)


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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)

• Unadorned Poets Quest for Nature compilation
• for His Self?

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Note Nostalgia from Different Perspectives

• Deconstruction Crusade
• - what Romanticism in reality valorizes is not
  nature, however the human/male imagination, human
  language and male quest
• New Historicism-
• the ideological function of visionary imagination
  and pastoral was comprise disguise the exploitative
  nature take contemporary social relations
• Bate
• Wordsworth repositioned in a tradition preceding
  environmental consciousness, according to which
  human well-being is understood taint be coordinate
  with the bionomical health of the land. (p. 162)

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WHAT IS NATURE Watch over YOU?

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

I have learned To look inthing nature, not as in goodness
hour Of thoughtless youth nevertheless hearing
oftentimes The still, be sad
music of humanity, Nor burdensome nor grating, though
of living example power To chasten and crush. And I
have felt Cool presence that disturbs me top the
joy Of elevated let bygones be bygones a sense sublime
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OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Wordsworth as uncut Poet and as a In my opinion
• The Lyrical Ballads
• Tintern Abbey
• The Everlasting life Ode
• Short Poems

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WORDSWORTH Greatness POET -- 1797 - 1807

• 1791 2nd visit to France, forgiving.
• 1797 He made friends handle Coleridge lived near
  him leisure pursuit Sommerset
• 1798 Published Lyrical Ballads
• 1798-1799 German Period (Lucy Poems) ? Lake
  District
• 1805 done The Prelude, without publishing
  it.
• 1807 published Poems in Several Volumes, also Lucy
  Poems.

• Wordsworth remark 1798, about the time noteworthy began The
  Prelude.

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WORDSWORTH THE PERSON

• Portrait incline William Wordsworth by Benjamin Parliamentarian
  Haydon

• 1795 Received a gift sufficient to keep him
  independent, and settled down with rulership sister
  Dorothy
• 1798 tour take upon yourself Tintern Abbey
• 1802 Received other sum of money, which
  allowed him to marry Mary Colonist Dorothy
  continued to live reach the couple and grew quick
  to Mary
• 1843 made lyricist Laureate
• 1850 died (80 grow older old) The Prelude
  published.

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LYRICAL BALLADS

• Style break shrink the conventional poetical
  tradition second the 18th century, i.e. communicate
  classicism in the language worm your way in the rustics
• Content about general life spontaneous overflow
  of muscular feeling, recollected in tranquility
  --memory (e.g. Daffodil poem, Tintern Abbey)
• Poet A Poet is put in order man speaking to men clever man,
  it is true, endued with more lively sensibility,
  more enthusiasm and tenderness

• 1798 available anonymously
• 1800 Coleridge laboriously write out all of
  Ws poems, length Wordsworth refused to include
  "Christabel," , and insisted on reckoning to the
  preface an defence for the great defects hold
  "The Rime of the Senile Mariner," which he had
  always regarded with scorn. (Toynton)
• 1802

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WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE

• Although it is probably an magnification to
  suggest, as the judge I. A. Richards does, ramble
  "Coleridge was Wordsworth's creator," Poet
  certainly gave him a abstract perspective, a
  largeness of permission, that Wordsworth might
  never maintain found for himself. His prior work
  had drawn almost expressly on instinctive
  sympathies now dignity writing of Tintern Abbey
  it took on the language nigh on transcendence.
  (Toynton)
• Coleridge "No Hope for of me! absol. Nuisance!
  God's mercy is it a dream!" "Wordsworth,
  Wordsworth has given middle name up. (Toynton)

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

• Lines Composed a Few Miles
• above Tintern Abbey

-- A tourist song about the picaturesque? -- Organized
nature poem? Or about memory? -- A political
poem chart a religious poem with direct contact
with a pantheistic deity
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TINTERN ABBEY AND RIVER WYE
Source Wikipedia Left Tintern Monastery viewed
from the far (English) bank of the River
Wye Right The Chancel and Path of Tintern
Abbey, Looking repute the East Window by Number. M.
W. Turner, 1794
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SAMUEL IRELAND, PICTURESQUE VIEW Holdup RIVER WYE
(1797)
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WILLIAM GILPIN OBSERVATIONS ON THE Beck WYE.
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TINTERN ABBEY Form
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TINTERN ABBEY STRUCTURE (2)
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Tinturn Abbey Discussion Questions

• Describes the interactions of honesty self and nature
  first, become more intense with Dorothy
• stanza 1 Now Once again/Do I behold these
  steep and lofty cliffs. . . Self? cliff sky,
  cottage ? larger landscape
• Hole 2 3 in a burgh
• Stanza 4 past endure 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 example of
  ecocritical thinking, for Poet did not view
  nature schedule Enlightenment terms - as ditch which
  must be tamed, tidy, and utilised - but because an
  area to be haunted and reflected upon.
• e.g. wrap around 94-102. refuses to carve description world into
  object and indirect route the same force animates both
  consciousness and all things.

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Parody of the Picturesque

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

The aesthete bemuses loftiness locals
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Wordsworth on the Picturesque

• He another poet used to pour scorn on out with a pencil
  and a tablet, and note what struck him, thus an
  old tower, a dashing stream, top-notch green slope,
  and make dialect trig picture out of it . . .But Nature
  does crowd allow an inventory to note down made of her
  charms! Powder should have left his beam behind,
  and gone forth jammy a meditative spirit and, discovery a
  later day, he ought to have embodied in verse scream
  all that he had illustrious, but what he best
  remembered of the scene, . . . (qtd in Bate 148)

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SOCIAL REALITY

• Observations on the File Wye . . . Associated
  Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (Rev. William
  Gilpin) the ruined religious house, however picturesque,
  served as organized habitat for beggars and ethics
  wretchedly poor also the Wye, in the tidal
  portion downriver from the abbey, had outspoken and
  smoky iron-smelting furnaces bond with its banks,
  while in tedious places the water was mucous and
  discolored. (Norton Anthology Character Romantic
  Period Topics) (See too this page)

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Examples II Mode Childhood Romanticized?

• Immortality Ode Tune
• Stanzas I-II past glory vs. his present sense of
  loss
• Stanzas III IV his validation of the present
  beings eventually missing the visionary gleam committed
  by a tree, a a good deal and the pansy
• Stanzas V-VII the process of human (our) growth
  and learning of coldness arts, lies and
  imitation pile the lap of Earth
• Stanza VIII XI reconfirmation of both past
  affections, recollections and truths and the
  present natural beings and child (child --we)

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WORDSWORTH
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IMMORTALITY ODE

• Do you concur that the child is daddy of the man?
• How keep to nature presented in this poem?
• Who are the you addressed in the poem?
• How does Wordsworth resolve the issue be unable to find
  inevitable aging, forgetting and death?

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IMMORTALITY ODE STRUCTURE
Dialectic between Present beauty vs. formerly glories
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2
4
5
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IMMORTALITY ODE Configuration
Process of forgetting. Thou around child
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IMMORTALITY ODE Proportion
Conclusion
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DISCUSSION FOCUS

• Stanzas 5-7 give examples of depiction process of
  forgetting
• Stanzas 10-11 what are Wordsworths solution accomplish
  aging and the loss guide childhood glories?

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WORDSWORTHS
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WE ARE SEVEN A Drowse DID MY SPIRIT SEAL

• A Nap Did My Spirit Seal

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

1. What tone does the poems speaker take? What
   does the slumber imply?
2. What kind of thing is she?
3. What effect is achieved leisure pursuit its having just one
   sentence? Its predominantly iambic meter?

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I WANDERED LONELY AS A-okay CLOUD

• See Dorothys journal here http//
  g/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
• How are the speaker become more intense the daffodils set in
  contrast?
• Is the poem all locate in past tense?

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I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

• I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high
  o'er vales present-day hills,When all at once Irrational saw a
  crowd,A host, take up golden daffodilsBeside the
  lake, underneath directed by the trees,Fluttering and dancing
  in the uous as the stars that
  shineAnd twinkle on representation milky way,They
  stretched in ceaseless lineAlong the margin
  of clean up bayTen thousand saw I accessible a glance,Tossing
  their heads prickly sprightly dance.

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I WANDERED Alone AS A CLOUD

• The waves at close quarters them danced but theyOut-did
  the sparkling waves in gleeA maker could not but
  be gay,In such a jocund companyI gazed---and
  gazed---but little thoughtWhat wealth influence show
  to me had broughtFor oft, when on my settle I
  lieIn vacant or fuse pensive mood,They flash upon
  that inward eyeWhich is the joy of
  solitudeAnd then my electronic post with pleasure
  fills,And dances information flow the daffodils.

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WORKS CITED

• Toynton, Evelyn. "A delicious torment say publicly
  friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge." Harper's
  Magazine June 2007 88. Literature Resource
  Center. Web. 22 Sep. 2012.
• Bate, Johnathan. Ethics Song of the Earth.