Q:1 What according to Wordsworth should be the theme of poetry ?Or write note on Wordsworth’s view on the subject matter of poetry.

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Name: Riddhi Maru

Semester: 1

Batch: 2016/2018

Roll No: 29

Paper No: 3

Unit: 3

Submitted To: M.K.Bhavnagar University/

Department of English

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Assignment Topic: Wordsworth

Q:1 What according to Wordsworth should be the theme of poetry ?Or write note on Wordsworth’s view on the subject matter of poetry.

William Wordsworth was born in cocker mouth in camber land in 1770, the son of John and Anne Wordsworth. He went to school in Hawks head, then at the age of seventeen, Went up to St.John’s college. Cambridge his main contribution in English as a poet He was the great , supreme and prominent poet of the age .He wrote many works but some of them “The Prelude” and “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” his great and world famous works, each and every lines of their works are full of emotions, feelings and passions “ The Recluse “ is also another great work of him .In this work’s name he was mentioned in the beginning of the “ Prelude”

The Prelude :’The Prelude ‘ is epic and to compose a philosophical poem ,containing views of man Nature and society and to be entitled the Recluse ,as having for its principal subject. Living in retirement.

For instance, in 1799 he writes to Wordsworth: “I am anxiously eager to have you steadily employed on ‘The Recluse’ I wish you would write a poem.

In the 1850, edition, Wordsworth pays tribute to Coleridge in his introduction, saying that the “Work addressed to a dale friend, most distinguished for his knowledge and genius, and to whom the author’s intellect is deeply indebted.

Literary Critic on The Prelude: R. Morgan’s “Narrative means to Lyric ends in Wordsworth’s Prelude “ “Much of poem consists of Wordsworth’s interactions with nature that” assure him of his poetic mission . The goal of the poem is to demonstrate his finless to produce great poetry, and The Prelude itself becomes evidence of that fitness. It traces the growth of the poet’s mind by stressing the mutual consciousness and spiritual communion between the world of Nature and Man.

He was the great creature of poem on nature. In the “Advertisements ‘to the 1798 edition of “Lyrical Ballads “. Wordsworth collection were intended as a deliberate experiment in style and subject matter .Wordsworth elaborated on this idea in the “Preface “ to the 1800 and 1802 editions which outline his main ideas of a new theory of poetry .Even the language and imagery he used to embody those themes .

Wordsworth had set out in the “Preface of Lyrical Ballads “. He wrote “Preface “to defend himself from the negative reviews.

Wordsworth argued that poetry should be written in the real language of common man, rather than in the lofty and elaborate dictions that were then considered “Poetic “

He believed that the first principal of poetry should be pleasure and so the chief duty of poetry is provide is to provide pleasure though a rhythmic and beautiful expression of feeling .All human sympathy he asserted is based on a subtle pleasure principle that is “ the naked and native dignity of man “

Wordsworth elaborated on this idea in the “Preface “to the 1800 and 1802 editions which outline his main ideas of a new theory of poetry. Wordsworth explained his poetical concept.

“The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments .They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language if conversation in is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure “.

If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of a departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a sigma of shift to modern literature .One of the main themes of “ Lyrical Ballads “ is the return to the original state of nature, in Which man led a purer and more innocent existence . Wordsworth subscribed to Rousseau’s belief that man was essentially good and was corrupted by linked with the sentiments spreading though Europe just prior to the French Revolution.

Rejecting the classical notion that poetry should be afoul elevated subjects and should be composed in a formal style. Wordsworth intends championed more democratic themes. The lives of ordinary man and woman ,farmers, paupers, and the rural poor .In the “Preface” Wordsworth also emphasizes his commitment to writing in the ordinary language of people ,not a highly crafted poetical one True to traditional Ballad form the poem depict realistic characters in realistic ,and so contain a strong narrative element .

Object (Subject Matter Of Poetry ) :Object then proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life and to relate and describe them ,throughout ,as far as possible in a selection of language really used by man and at the same time ,to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination and above all to make these situations and incidents interesting by tracing in them , truly though not ostentatiously the primary laws if our nature chiefly as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement . Humble and rustic life: Humble and rustic life also the subject matter of the poetry Wordsworth chosen the subject matter by the rustic life .Because rustic life style, people and the things are very kind and the things are very kind and very near to the nature and God. And, Through the subject matter of rustic life the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are lessen under restraint ,and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life , our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity ,and contemplated , and more forcibly communicated .

Language: Language, style of poetry language also played very vital role in process of creative writing .Such man communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived; and because from their rank in society and intercourse language is the thing that through man can communicate with the each other .They convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions, Accordingly.

“Such a language arising out of the repeated experience and regular feelings is a more permanent ,and a far more philosophical language than that which is frequently substituted for it by poets , Who think that they are conferring honor upon themselves and their art ,in proportion as they separate themselves from the sympathies of men , and indulge in arbitrary and captious habits of expression ,in order of furnish food for fickle appetites , of their own creation .”

Definition of Poetry: Definition of Poetry means what he believed about poetry that’s he reflected here .He says about good poetry that “Spontaneous Overflow Of Powerful Feelings “And though this be true, poems to which any value can be attached were never Produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of “more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply “

What is Poet? Poet is a man speaking to man: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness poet has a human Matura, and a more comprehensive soul.

The function of poetry: “Poetry ‘according to Wordsworth, ‘ is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge , the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science .”

Poetry seeks to ennoble and edify. It is like morning star which throws its radiance through the gloom and darkness of medium of poetry he impacts moral lessons for the betterment of human life .Poetry is the instrument for the propagation of moral thoughts .Wordsworth’s poetry does not simply delight us , but it also teaches us deep moral lesson and brings home to us deep philosophical truths about and religion “ Wordsworth believes that poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life ;a poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is a poetry of indifference towards life .”

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