Paper : 103 Assignment :
Worsworth's life and Nature in his poems
Name - Hina Parmar
Batch - M.A. Sem 1 (2022-2024)
Enrollment no - 40692064202221
Roll no - 11
Subject code - 22394
Paper no - 103
Paper - Literature of the Romantics
Email address - hinaparmar612@gmail.com
Submitted to - Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English M.K.B.U.
Date of submission - 7 th November, 2022
This blog is Assignment given by Dr.Dilip Barad sir H.O.D of English Department M.K.B.U. In this blog I write about Wordsworth's life and "Nature" in his poems.
Worsworth's life
Wordsworth was the most important figure in English History. He was regarded as the most celebrated and influential Romantic English poet of his time. He was the greatest English poet after Shakespeare and Milton. He was born in 1770 at Cockmouth in the country of Cumberland. Wordworth was the second eldest of five children. His father was a lawyer and also land agent for Sir James Lowthen. William had a special connection with his sister Dorothy. They are special friends and they roamed the woods and valleys of the local Derwent river.
When William was eight years old his mother died because of pneumonia. The following year William was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School, which is near Lake Windermere. William received great freedom at this school. He roamed the countryside and he boated, fished and many times he spent the night alone in the forest. The great biographical poem of his life is "The prelude", he wrote this poem to recall the winter when the lakes were frozen over he went skating on them.
All with steel,
We biss'd along the polish'd ice, in games
Confederate,imitative of the
And woodland pleasures, the resounding born,
The pack loud bellowing, and the bunted bare.
" Lakeland poets " was a group that is widely credited in the English Romantic Movement, in this group there were William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Samuel Coleridge. Romantic movement was characterized by a rejection of the Enlightenment, it was focused on reason, logic, and structure. On the other hand, Romanticism focuses on emotion and imagination. The poets who emphasize man's connection with nature are called "nature poets". Wordsworth was considered a nature poet; he addressed this connection in his three poems, "Lines composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey", "Ode intimations of immortality" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud". William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats.
Higher education and Works
In 1791 he pursued a BA degree at Cambridge, then he returned to France to spend a year there. This was the period when most revolutionary events happened in France, and this was an important period of his life. Wordsworth was fired by a deep and passionate faith in the Revolution, he fell in love with Annette Vallon. In 1792 he had a daughter Caroline by her. He wanted to marry her but he ran out of money , his uncle refused to provide him money for his residence abroad. At the age of 23, in January 1793 he published two poems; these poems established him as a poet. This poems were written in heroic couplets, in the eighteenth century tradition,
"An Evening Walk"
"Descriptive sketches"
The period 1793-95 was one of depression for Wordsworth, this was his great unhappiness and uncertainty about his professional future. When the French Revolution passed into terror he lost his trust in immediate social reform, and turned to abstract meditation on man and society.
In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads, with few poems anonymously. After Wordsworth's death, his wife published a preface, which is known as "poems for Coleridge ''.
wordsworth as conservative person
The great production of his early and middle years was now over, and Wordsworth turned into a patriotic, conservative public man. He was honored by the universities of Durham in 1838 and Oxford in 1839, and in 1842 he received a Civil list pension of 300 a year, and in 1843 he succeeded Robert Southey as poet Laureate (1843-1850). He died at Rydal mount in April 1850 and was buried in Grasmere churchyard.
Worsworth's Marriage life-
Wordsworth lost his brother John at sea in 1805, which came as cruel below, and he also lost his two children in 1812. He also faced physical deterioration of Coleridge.
Wordsworth's married and domestic life is considered a happy life. His another disappointment for some time came from Coleridge in 1810.
Poetic works
His major early single works are
Wordsworth's longer poems and Dramatic works
His prose works and Travel Book
"Lyrical Ballads' ' (1800) is his Essay.
"A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England '' written in 1810 is his Travel book.
His style
Wordsworth's writing style is simple but wonderfully directed. He uses a language that is "Really spoken by men ''. He was "regarded as a common inheritance of poets' ', he largely used language that was not to decorate his experience but to record it. Wordsworth most of ideas were simple; he waved his ideas through his poetic work, in his poems he included the natural world, religion, morality, mortality, memory, and also served the power of the human mind. In his work there is the lack of obvious literary artifice. His method of writing poetry shows simplicity and clarity.
Nature in Wordsworth's poems-
William Wordsworth was one of the prominent poets of romantic poetry. He always tries to build a better future for the world. That's why he expressed his feelings in the natural world rather than in reason. The French revolution made him use writing as self defense of war and returning to nature.in his writing he used simple language to describe geographical places or special places. William Wordsworth's description of nature was not the nature of Darwin, Isaac Newton, or neither the nature of Stephen Hawking. His nature created in his mind, his desire for writing, upbringing in the middle class, and his education at Cambridge. Wordsworth strongly believed that there is a relationship between human and nature. In the nineteenth century he created a new version of nature "It was mostly male, white, upper middle class, very literary, and romantic". Wordsworth has a personal experience about nature everywhere, he said behind each his poem has a valuable purpose. He was regarded as a great poet of nature because most of his poems represent human beings' dependence on nature.
One of his poems "The world is too much with us" which was written in 1802 and it was published in 1807. In this poem he denies the elements of nature because he was frustrated with humans ' treatment of nature. These three poems express his feelings of nature in different ways.
The world is too much with us; late and soon
Getting and spending, we lay waste our power:
Little we see in nature that is our;
We have given our hearts a way, a sordid boon!
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up -gathered now like sleeping flowers,
In another poem which was "The prelude", "Lines written in Early spring" Wordworth described nature as being loyal to man.
heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man?
Another one of the shortest poems "The Tables Turned ". Wordsworth strongly believes in the power of nature and this poem is a good example of that thing.
Up! Up! My friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you‘ll grow double:
Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks; Why all this toil and trouble?
Here is a table of William Wordsworth selected poems entitled in london, 1802. This table includes the element of nature and its meaning .
The word star symbolizes awesomeness, it shows that Milton's "soul was like a star" and was separate from all the rest of the people in the world. The other symbol sea describes the artistic voice of milton. Wordsworth expresses the power of Milton's "voice" in his simile, in which he compares it to sea. The last symbol of heaven represented the purity of his ability in his poems.
The feeling of William Wordsworth of nature in his poem "My Heart Leap Up"
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it now I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety
William Wordsworth wrote this poem in 1802 in a very simple language and he wrote this poem when he saw a rainbow. This poem is considered as one of his best poems in English literature. In this poem he used his beautiful emotion to express his feelings towards nature. He was the poet who taught us that simple language can connect human beings and other living things with nature, because he believed that -
" the language enables us to converse with nature"
In this poem, William Wordsworth used imagery and figure of speech which is called metaphor. Metaphor is common in Wordsworth's poems. He also gives human characteristics to a non human entity which is called personification and aso used paradox, paradox are types of figurative language. In this poem he described the rainbow as a symbol of nature and he expressed his feeling when he saw a rainbow in the sky. To see this rainbow he collected his childhood experience.
In this poem he tries to say that he felt the same feeling whenever he saw a rainbow. William Wordsworthes view on nature that nature is one of the things which protect human beings because human survival is dependent on nature and used literature especially poetry to spread his message. This poem is the best example of the thought that human beings are close to nature. Wordsworth emphasizes that humans can't live without nature because it can be dangerous for both. Whenever humans see the beauty of nature they enjoy themselves and we know that rainbows are a phenomenon that happens rarely but at the same time it gives human beings a nice feeling. William Wordsworth loved to describe the appearance of nature.
Conclusion
In the end we can say that William Wordsworth is described as a great ecological poet by several critics. He admired nature in the nineteenth century. He was one of the pioneers who wrote about nature in particular in a simple language to convey his message to all people that nature has power that can serve human beings psychologically and physically.
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