As far as the nature of poetry is concerned, as per Wordsworth "poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Poetry has its origin in the internal feelings of the poet. In 19th century, when Wordsworth was a writer, industry and urbanity were taking place in England. Wordsworth believed that this sort of crowded lifestyle caused people's minds to grow numb day after day. Primarily, Wordsworth wrote not for himself. He felt the need to use the subject of nature in his poetry in order to keep his readers emotionally alive and morally sensitive. In his "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads," Wordsworth shows that his nature-centered poems have a power of reversing the effects of urban life and revive dull minds, his poetry allows people to experience the profound joys of nature and be revived. he believes his poetry can help keep humans human by bringing them back to nature. In his "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads," Wordsworth highlights how his nature-centered poetry has the power to turn people away from urbanity and industrialization.
Moreover, Wordsworth's solution to mind-dulling urbanization is to bring people back to nature through poetry. In his "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads," Wordsworth explains that the time ...
In several literary works, there is an underlying tension between the parents and their children. One example of this parental conflict can be seen in Anne Sexton's '.' The poem details the sentiments of a child who has lost both of her parents within a very short period of time and who addresses her father in a sympathetic tone. As a result, the c...
The era of Romanticism spans from the late 1700's to the mid 1800's following the French Revolution; therefore, 'Romanticism' encompasses characteristics of the human mind in addition to the particular time in history when these qualities became dominant in culture. Romanticism depicts an artistic movement which emerged from reaction against dom...
The beloved poet, Carl Sandburg, changed the course of American poetry. He was a poet, novelist, journalist, and songwriter, yet the influence of his works have not always been acknowledged. Carl Sandburg's evocations of American urban and rural life, compassion for people, and his love of nature, through his works have made an enormous contributi...
BY J.K. ROWLING LENGTH: 223 ORIGINAL BOOK ASSIGNMENT 1 HARRY POTTER thinks he?s a regular boy, And also his ?parents? acts him as he was a toy. He was always getting a lot of letters from no one, Till Vernon got crazy and run away as far as japan. But since HAGRID has arrived, his life has changed, And his jerk ass brother, Dudley, is...
Introduction The poems `Mending Wall' and `New year' written by Robert Frost and Edward Thomas are both similar in the idea that they both revolve around encounters. Both poems have many similarities in their presentation and ideas but are also very contrasting. Both have encounters, presented in different ways, some of the key ideas however remai...