S.B. Gardi Department of EnglishM.K. Bhavnagar University

Topic:- Simplicity of human life In Wordsworth’s

poems

Course name:- Romantic literature

Roll no. 14

Enrollment no. pg14101016

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Prepared by:- Milan Parmar

Introduction

Born:- 1770, Cockermouth,

Died:- 1850, Grasmere

He was one of the greatest poet of nature England have ever produced….

His most famous works are, Lyrical Ballads, Preface to lyrical ballads, Prelude, intimation of immortality…

Human life and his Philosophy

His doctrines of human

life

Childhood

As sensitive

Natural instincts

and pleasure

Truth of Humanity

Nature and his

philosophy

Childhood as sensitive

Child comes straight from the creator of nature..

Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our creator

-Intimation of immortality

This kinship with Nature and with god, which glorifies childhood and ennobles it when he become man…

For Wordsworth society and crowded unnatural life of cities tend to weaken and pervert humanity and return to natural and simple living is the only remedy for human wretchedness…

‘Natural instincts and pleasure..’

Natural pleasures are permanent and it is the only source to increase joy…in his poems “TinternAbbey,” “The Rainbow”, “Ode to Duty,” “Intimations of Immortality,” and “Daffodils.”

“Rainbow”

My heart leaps up when I behold,

The rainbow in the sky,

As it was when I was child,

As it is now when I’m man….

The sight of rainbow has been pleasing the speaker since when he was child, and it will be until his death

“I wandered lonely as cloud”

For oft, when on my couch I lie

in Vacant and pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

which is the Bliss of solitude

And my heart with pleasure fills

And dances with the daffodils..

The beauty of this flowers always gives him pleasure and this shows permanence pleasure in nature

Truth of Humanity

The common life which labors and loves and share the general heritage of smiles and tears.

It is the only subject of permanent literary interest….

His poems based on this themes are, “Michael,” “solitary reaper,” “To Highland girl,” “Stepping westward,” “the excursion…”.

Joys and sorrows not of king, prince and elites, but common people and their simple life are the basic themes of his poems…

Poetry on human relations and emotions

“Michael” “thou must not go, we have no other child,

But thee lose, none to remember, Do not go away for if thou leave

Thy father, he will die…

Breaking of families because of industrialization“Solitary reaper”

behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary highland lass;

Reaping and singing by herself…...alone she cuts and binds the grain..

..and sings a melancholy strain….

Nature and his philosophy for man

Mystic elements

Nature as living god

Man is reflection of divine spirit

Nature as teaches us to look within our inner spirit

Spiritual appeals of nature in “Tintern Abbey”

In nature and the language of the sense,

anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,

The guide, the guardian of my heart,

and soul Of all my moral being.

conclusion

His poetry has too simplicity of nature and human life and it often puzzle to reader.

Though his language and subjects are simple but they are deeply philosophical.

We can say that he was a poet of simplicity of both human life as well as nature.