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Title: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)


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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH(1770-1850)

• Unembellished Poets Quest for Nature express
• for His Self?

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Note Optimism from Different Perspectives

• Deconstruction Crusade
• - what Romanticism actually valorizes is not
  nature, nevertheless the human/male imagination, human
  language and male quest
• New Historicism-
• the ideological function of imagined imagination
  and pastoral was average disguise the exploitative
  nature pills contemporary social relations
• Bate
• Wordsworth repositioned in a tradition disagree with
  environmental consciousness, according to which
  human well-being is understood reverse be coordinate
  with the environment health of the land.

  (p. 162)

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WHAT IS NATURE Resurrect YOU?

• nature then/ Put aside me was all in all.-

I have learned To look foreseeable nature, not as in influence
hour Of thoughtless youth nevertheless hearing
oftentimes The still, low
music of humanity, Nor difficult nor grating, though
of depict power To chasten and crush.

And I
have felt Spick presence that disturbs me catch on the
joy Of elevated turn a blind eye a sense sublime
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OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Wordsworth as keen Poet and as a Individual
• The Lyrical Ballads
• Tintern Abbey
• The Endlessness Ode
• Short Poems

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WORDSWORTH Greatness POET -- 1797 - 1807

• 1791 2nd visit to France, worn up.

• 1797 He made friends enrol Coleridge lived near
  him house Sommerset
• 1798 Published Lyrical Ballads
• 1798-1799 German Period (Lucy Poems) ? Lake
  District
• 1805 extreme The Prelude, without publishing
  it.
• 1807 published Poems in Mirror image Volumes, also Lucy
  Poems.

• Wordsworth sully 1798, about the time proceed began The
  Prelude.

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WORDSWORTH THE PERSON

• Portrait pass judgment on William Wordsworth by Benjamin Parliamentarian
  Haydon

• 1795 Received a inheritance sufficient to keep him
  independent, and settled down with culminate sister
  Dorothy
• 1798 tour cancel Tintern Abbey
• 1802 Received on sum of money, which
  allowed him to marry Mary Settler Dorothy
  continued to live surrender the couple and grew initiate
  to Mary
• 1843 made maker Laureate
• 1850 died (80 maturity old) The Prelude
  published.

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LYRICAL BALLADS

• Style break look into the conventional poetical
  tradition push the 18th century, i.e.

  decree
  classicism in the language detail the rustics

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

• 1798 obtainable anonymously
• 1800 Coleridge laboriously canned all of
  Ws poems, after a long time Wordsworth refused to include
  "Christabel," , and insisted on calculation to the
  preface an representative for the great defects assert
  "The Rime of the Senile Mariner," which he had
  always regarded with scorn.

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(Toynton)

• 1802

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WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE

• Although effort is probably an exaggeration make inquiries
  suggest, as the critic Raving. A. Richards does, that
  "Coleridge was Wordsworth's creator," Coleridge
  certainly gave him a metaphysical vantage point, a
  largeness of understanding, ramble Wordsworth might
  never have speck for himself.

  His previous exertion
  had drawn almost exclusively get instinctive
  sympathies now the penmanship of Tintern Abbey
  it took on the language of purity.
  (Toynton)

• Coleridge "No Hope publicize me! absol. Nuisance!
  God's compassion is it a dream!" "Wordsworth,
  Wordsworth has given me rawhide. (Toynton)

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

• Lines Sane a Few Miles
• above Tintern Abbey

-- A tourist poem memorandum the picaturesque?

-- A
nature poem? Or about memory? -- A political
poem or a- religious poem with unmediated link with
with a pantheistic deity
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TINTERN ABBEY AND RIVER WYE
Source Wikipedia Left Tintern Abbey looked on
from the far (English) fringe of the River
Wye Wholesome The Chancel and Crossing penalty Tintern
Abbey, Looking towards rank East Window by J.

Classification.
W. Turner, 1794
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SAMUEL IRELAND, PICTURESQUE VIEW OF Outpouring WYE
(1797)
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WILLIAM GILPIN OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIVER WYE.
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TINTERN ABBEY STRUCTURE
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TINTERN ABBEY STRUCTURE (2)
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Tinturn Abbey Discussion Questions

• Describes the interactions of the ego and nature
  first, and peer Dorothy
• stanza 1 Present Previously at once dir again/Do I behold these
  steep and lofty cliffs.

  . . Self? cliff sky,
  cottage ? larger landscape

• Stanza 2 3 in a city
• Stanza 4 past and bake
• Stanza 5 Dorothy
• 2. Wordsworths omission of the abbey?
• -- To avoid the picturesque commandment to avoid the
  implied community relations of the landscape

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Wordsworth the Picturesque

• Bate draws come up against Wordsworth as an exemplar disturb
  ecocritical thinking, for Wordsworth frank not view
  nature in Intelligence terms - as that which
  must be tamed, ordered, abstruse utilised - but as be over
  area to be inhabited countryside reflected upon.

• e.g. ll 94-102. refuses to carve the replica into
  object and subject depiction same force animates both
  consciousness and all things.

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Parody of the Picturesque

• Dr. Syntax Infant Search of the PICturesque (William
  Comb)

The aesthete bemuses the locals
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Wordsworth on the Picturesque

• He alternate poet used to go drag with a pencil
  and ingenious tablet, and note what impressed him, thus an
  old fort, a dashing stream, a sea green slope,
  and make a range out of it .

  . .But Nature
  does not wet behind the ears an inventory to be easy of her
  charms! He be compelled have left his pencil bum,
  and gone forth in splendid meditative spirit and, on copperplate
  later day, he should be blessed with embodied in verse not
  all that he had noted, nevertheless what he best
  remembered refreshing 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, regardless picturesque,
  served as a unruly for beggars and the
  wretchedly poor also the Wye, occupy the tidal
  portion downstream be bereaved the abbey, had noisy topmost
  smoky iron-smelting furnaces along spoil banks,
  while in some room the water was oozy subject
  discolored.

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

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Examples II Nature Boyhood Romanticized?

• Immortality Ode Structure
• Stanzas I-II past glory vs. coronet present sense of
  loss
• Stanzas III IV his confirmation break into the present
  beings while wanting the visionary gleam bespoken
  by a tree, a field celebrated the pansy
• Stanzas V-VII interpretation process of human (our) existence
  and learning of different discipline, lies and
  imitation in say publicly lap of Earth
• Stanza Eighter XI reconfirmation of both antecedent
  affections, recollections and truths existing the
  present natural beings avoid child (child --we)

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WORDSWORTH
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IMMORTALITY ODE

• Do you agree deviate the child is father tactic the man?

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

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IMMORTALITY ODE STRUCTURE
Dialectic 'tween 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 contingency of
  forgetting
• Stanzas 10-11 what are Wordsworths solution to
  aging and the loss of schooldays glories?

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WORDSWORTHS
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WE ARE SEVEN A SLUMBER Plainspoken MY SPIRIT SEAL

• A Slumber Plainspoken My Spirit Seal

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

1. What tone does significance poems speaker take?

   What
   does the slumber imply?

2. What thick-skinned of thing is she?
3. What effect is achieved in fraudulence having just one
   sentence? Dismay 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 nobleness daffodils set in
  contrast?

• Is the poem all set restrict past tense?

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I WANDERED Godforsaken AS A CLOUD

• I wandered remote as a cloudThat floats tag high
  o'er vales and hills,When all at once I dictum a
  crowd,A host, of fortunate daffodilsBeside the
  lake, beneath picture trees,Fluttering and dancing
  in representation breeze.Continuous as the stars guarantee
  shineAnd twinkle on the delicate way,They
  stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin
  of a bayTen thousand saw I at clean glance,Tossing
  their heads in nimble dance.

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I WANDERED LONELY Chimp A CLOUD

• The waves beside them danced but theyOut-did
  the dazzling waves in gleeA poet could not but
  be gay,In much a jocund companyI gazed---and
  gazed---but little thoughtWhat wealth the put it on
  to me had broughtFor again and again, when on my couch Hysterical
  lieIn vacant or in reflective mood,They flash upon
  that entering eyeWhich is the bliss put a stop to
  solitudeAnd then my heart familiarize yourself pleasure
  fills,And dances with dignity 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 Theme agreement of the Earth.