In Wordsworth’s “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads,” something that interested me was that he said that in his poetry he wanted to represent “incidents and situations from common life.” He said he wanted to use a “selection of language really used by men.” He does this throughout his poetry and it was interesting to me ...
The works of William Wordsworth are as ground-breaking and daring as they are numerous. Through his own unique perception of Nature, creation, and the relationship of the self to these ideas, Wordsworth carries the implications of Romantic Nature poetry above and beyond those of all other poets of his ilk; he goes so far as ...
Sleep and dream poems cast cobwebs of moonlight over us. Some yearn for sleep, others get lost in a dream, yet other poems speak of daydreams and wishes. And so, this collection of audio poems is as varied as our dreams themselves. Relive the restlessness of a sleepless night, or the ache of waking from ...
For those in the 18th century who read poetry, there existed an idea called The Sublime, which had to deal with the feeling(s) a reader, or often someone in person, got when experiencing the natural world. There were two parts to this philosophy: the Dynamic, and the Mathematical. The Dynamic, for example, was “felt” upon ...
William Wordsworth valued poetry as a vehicle taken to a great many destinations, from personal creativity to political expression. The characteristic of his poetry that he most valued however, was his capacity to use this medium to communicate the importance of history in the modern day, as well as the impact it would have on ...
Although we don’t realize it when we read his works now, William Wordsworth was a revolutionary thinker in his time. He did not believe that the sublime was transcendent. Instead, his opinion was that the sublime could be found in the ordinary, or nature. Simple as this may sound, reaching the sublime did not merely ...
In William Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” he describes good poetry as the spontaneous overflow of emotion. He goes on later, however, to describe how the poet must train his emotions through much reflection and deep contemplation. Wordsworth describes a true poet as one who uses language that is common to everyday people; the poet ...
There is an Italian proverb which encourages people to remember that, once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. In the game of life, it is really the same; when all is said in done, a person’s social class will not matter at all. During the romantic ...
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