WORDSWORTH
WORDSWORTH AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
Wordsworth was interested in the relationship between the natural world and human
consciousness.
His poetry was characterized a interaction between man and nature of the influences, in-
sights, emotions and sensation which arise from this contact.
One of the most consisted concept in Wordsworth’s work is the idea that man and nature
are inseparable, the man exist as an active partecipant in the world.
Nature comfort man in sorrow, it’s a source of pleasure and joy, it teaches man to love and
to act in moral way, it’s also the seat of the spirit of the universe.
THE IMPORTANCE OF SENSE
Nature also means the world of sense perceptions.
Wordsworth exploited above all the sensibility of the eye and ear, trought which he could
perceive both the ‘beauteans forms’ of nature and the sounds of the winds or waters or the
silence of secluded places.
RECOLLECTION IN TRANQUILLITY
All genuine poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. Trought memory,
the emotion is reproduced and purified in poetic form.
THE POET’S TASK
The poet becomes a teacher, who could show men how to understand their feeling.
His task consist in drawing attention to the ordinary things of life to the humblest people,
where the deepest emotions and truths are to be found.
DAFFODILS
This poem, written by William Wordsworth in 1804.
Records the experience of a walk, when the poet is with his sister, Doroty, near their home
in Lake District.
Is one of Wordsworth’s most famous poem, characterized his love of nature
It was composed by four stanza:
First stanza = The poem opens with the poet wondering in a state of lonliness and he said ‘I
saw a crowd’, its bad humor is perceived and he was lonly.
But this mood suddenly broken by the sigh of the daffodils.
Wordsworth spends no word for describe the daffodils; but places them in relationship to
the lake and threes.
