Sunday, June 27, 2010

William Wordsworth

The way in which William Wordsworth is writing is talking about his life in the present. The previous authors tell stories of other ideas where Wordsworth seems to be talking about his emotions of his life. The very details that he gives seem to set a picture for the readers to imagine and think of along reading. He is able to describe how he remembers the memories like “a landscape to a blind man’s eye” (203). Along with that picture, he describes the different sensations he felt during that time, the “hours of weariness, sensations sweet,/ Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart” (203). The way Wordsworth describe his memories allows the readers to understand the same feeling that he felt of that memory. He tells his sister that when he came to where he is, he came from a past that he was running away from. Wordsworth again shows how much detail he puts into his poems. In his poem Strange fits of passion have I known, Wordsworth tells a story of some feelings he felt before. He explains that his love was like a “rose in June” (213). The way he separates each step towards Lucy’s cottage while riding his horse, I get the picture of him on his horse and the viewpoint the narrator of the poem sees. William Wordsworth seems to be the author that is able quite literally the reality of his life.

1 comment:

  1. Joe,

    Some interesting assertions about Wordsworth and his poems here, but little focus or coherent organization in your discussion. It is not always clear what poems you are talking about, and several of your claims are not developed or supported adequately.

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