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    aware of nature around them and more consumed with the things produced by man. The romantic poet William Wordsworth saw the cultural decline and as the literary critic Harold Bloom stated, “The fear of mortality haunts much of Wordsworth’s best poetry, especially in regard to the premature mortality of the imagination and the loss of creative joy.” This statement greatly reflects the views of Wordsworth, whose poetry conveys the warning of a man asking those enveloped in the world to step back and

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    Wordsworth is an high English poet and an establishing member of the Romantic Movement in the English literature. He lived and wrote at the period between 1770–1850 which is “the golden era of romanticism”. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth poetry and personality also were greatly influenced by his love for the nature, especially by the spectacles and views of the Lake Country area, where he spent most of his life in nature. Wordsworth is sincere thinker; he showed high tenderness and a love of

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    imagination” (Murray, 722). Yet, while all of these poets seem to believe in the importance of melancholy as inspiration for their work, each of these poets also seems to express this emotion in different ways. While one of these poets, Mr. William Wordsworth, often turns his negative ruminations into positive reflections on nature and memory, Mr. Coleridge instead experiences deeper melancholic moments that he cannot dispel quite so easily. Mr. John

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    William Wordsworth's “The World is Too Much With Us” is a Romantic Sonnet that can be broken into two parts. The speaker tells us in the first part that we have lost our connection with nature, and that that connection was one of our most important relationships. The speaker the goes on to tell us that that he is willing to sacrifice everything to recover this relationship, and begins on line 9. In romantic poems, the speaker tries to convince us of our flaws, in this case our skewed relationship

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    words of Thomas Edison, solitude is when, one does their best thinking. The importance of solitude can further be divulged into by Franz Kafka’s words that writing is the ultimate source of utter solitude, it acts as a welcome reprieve. Another of William Wordsworth’s contemporaries, Lord Byron was of the opinion that letter writing was the ultimate way of merging good company with solitude. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s renowned essay “Self-Reliance” he surmises that it is quite easy to dwell in the world

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    these are the words of William Wordsworth, an English Romantic Poet that helped pave the way for Romanticism in the early nineteenth century. John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, also English Romantic Poets, were influenced by Wordsworth’s works. All are known for their many beautiful and revolutionary poems. They allowed influences of life and their surroundings to contribute to their works of art. The challenges of life create a pathway to creative imagination. William Wordsworth was born in Northwest

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    Mind and Imagination An elevated concentration to the way the mind works is without a doubt one of the most significant attributes of Romantic poetry. In William Wordsworth’s poem, The Prelude, the poet allows several memories from his youth to be brought up again in his adulthood and looks to grasp onto these certain influences that have assisted in establishing his mind and could potentially help him become the best poet possible. John Keats described his idea of imagination to a friend in an

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    The Romantic Era was filled with artist and writers using nature as their muse in their writing and paintings, and William Wordsworth was the embodiment of this era. William Wordsworth’s work  Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was the begin of the literary portion of the Romantic Era. Wordsworth developed a love for nature at an early age, which provided as Wordsworth’s muse for many of his poems like “The World is Too Much with Us” and “Lines Written in Early Spring”. Wordsworth’s

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    William Wordsworth conveys an unique joy through verse. It is a delight which includes information and good truths, which would illuminate and lift up the peruser's sentiments. Verse ought to try to bring about a significant improvement, smarter and more content. The capacity of verse is to spread the message of co-relationship and affection. Wordsworth is exceptionally viewed as a writer of Nature. Nature is a wellspring of knowledge and he is an extraordinary supporter of this hypothesis. For him

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    William Wordsworth and the Industrial Revolution During the Industrial Revolution there was a dramatic change in Britain, which instigated social and economic problems Throughout Britain. During the Industrial Revolution, romantic poets such as William Wordsworth, along with other romantic artists, inflicted a positive aspect on the Industrial Revolution due to creating images that revealed everything as being beautiful and expressed the simple life. William Wordsworth illustrates an abundance of

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