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English Literature 2015
Unit 3 - Poetry
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William Wordsworth context revision
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Unit 3 - Poetry
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I have just completed my A Levels this year and was awarded an A* in English Literature. These are some notes I created during my study that helped me to understand the context of each romantic poetry. Delving specifically into the context helps to ensure that you get the highest possible mark.
Wordsworth context
- Attends Cambridge at 17
- His life has been mapped out for him by his family
- He chooses to do something that nobody expects of him
- He lays out in the preface to lyrical ballads what his beliefs about poetry are
- Over the years, Wordsworth’s “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” has come to be
seen as a manifesto for the Romantic movement in England
- The purpose of Wordsworth’s ballads is to allow cosmopolitan readers to
vicariously experience nature so that they can be revived from the mind-dulling
aspects of modernity.
Wordsworth’s beliefs
- Poetry should be written in the ordinary language of man. It should be understandable to
ordinary people
- Poems should be about ordinary everyday things that are important to ordinary people
- He was interested in the impact of the beauty of nature
- His poems appear deceptively simple but are almost always about the inner landscape
of the mind
- On the surface, the poems are quite trivial before they are expanded
- Wordsworth often wrote about something that he called spots of time. This is when an
experience becomes heightened or the lesson that he learns from something allows him
to achieve a deep understanding of these spots of time
- the ideas that he explores in poems like Tinton Abbey could be described as a sort of
pantheism
- He sees God in everything in nature man all things we are God and God is us these
ideas inform his views
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