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1、William Wordsworth,WILLIAM WORDSWORTHS LIFE STORY,Early life and education-He was born in April 7th 1770,in England-His sister,Dorothy was born in December 25th 1771-After the death of their mother,they were separated by their father-Wordsworth began attending St Johns College,Cambridge in 1787,WILL

2、IAM WORDSWORTHS LIFE STORY,Relationship with Annette Vallon-In November 1791,Wordsworth visited to France-Fell in love with a French woman,Annette Vallon-Lack of money and Britains tensions with France made him return alone to England the next year-During this period,he wrote his acclaimed“It is a b

3、eauteous evening,calm and free,recalling his seaside walk with his daughter,whom he had not seen for ten years,WILLIAM WORDSWORTHS LIFE STORY,First publication and Lyrical Ballads-1793 saw Wordsworths first published poetry and received a legacy of 900 from Raisley Calvert in 1795.-In 1795,he met Sa

4、muel Taylor Coleridge,with whom Wordsworth quickly developed close friendship-In 1797,Wordsworth and Dorothy moved to Somerset,near Coleridges home in Nether Stowey-Wordsworth and Coleridge(with insights from Dorothy)produced Lyrical Ballads in 1798,an important work in the English Romantic movement

5、-The second edition,published in 1800,had only Wordsworth listed as author,and included a preface to the poems-A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805,WILLIAM WORDSWORTHS LIFE STORY,Germany and move to the Lake District-In the autumn of 1798,Wordsworth,Dorothy,and Colerid

6、ge travelled to Germany-During the harsh winter of 17981799,Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar,and despite extreme stress and loneliness,he began working on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude-He also wrote a number of famous poems,including the Lucy poems”-He and his sister move

7、d back to England,now to Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District,nearby a fellow poet Robert Southey-Wordsworth,Coleridge,and Southey came to be known as the Lake Poets”-Through this period,many of his poems revolve around themes of death,endurance,separation,and grief,WILLIAM WORDSWORTHS LIFE

8、 STORY,Autobiographical work and Poems in Two Volumes-Wordsworth had plans to write a long philosophical poem,which he intended to call The Recluse-In 179899 He had started an autobiographical poem,which he called the poem to Coleridge,which would serve as an appendix to The Recluse-In 1804 he began

9、 expanding this autobiographical work,having decided to make it a prologue rather than an appendix to The Recluse-By 1805,he had completed it,but refused to publish until he had completed the whole of The Recluse-In 1807,his Poems in Two Volumes were published-For a time(starting in 1810),Wordsworth

10、 and Coleridge were estranged over the latters opium addiction-In 1812,two of his children,Thomas and Catherine,died-The following year,he received an appointment as Distributor of Stamps-His family,including Dorothy,moved to Rydal Mount,Ambleside,where he spent the rest of his life,WILLIAM WORDSWOR

11、THS LIFE STORY,The Prospectus-In 1814 he published The Excursion as the second part of the three-part The Recluse-He also wrote a poetic Prospectus to The Recluse in which he lays out the structure and intent of the poem-By 1820 he enjoyed the success accompanying a reversal in the contemporary crit

12、ical opinion of his earlier works-By 1828,Wordsworth had become fully reconciled to Coleridge,and the two toured the Rhineland together that year,WILLIAM WORDSWORTHS LIFE STORY,The Poet Laureate and other honors-Wordsworth received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham Universit

13、y,and the same honor from Oxford University the next year-In 1842 the government awarded him a civil list pension amounting to 300 a year-With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey,Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate,William Wordsworths Life Story,Death-William Wordsworth died in Rydal Mount in 1850 a

14、nd was buried at St.Oswalds church in Grasmere-His widow published his lengthy autobiographical poem to Coleridge as The Prelude several months after his death-Though this failed to arouse great interest in 1850,it has since come to be recognized as his masterpiece,My Heart Leaps Up,My heart leaps u

15、p when I behold A rainbow in the skySo was it when my life beganSo is it now I am a manSo be it when I shall grow oldOr let me die!The child is father of the manand I could wish my days to bebound each to each by natural piety,My Heart Leaps Up,My heart leaps up when I beholdMy heart feels so high w

16、hen I see a rainbow in the sky Wordsworth expresses his desire to be a part of the rainbow and its magnificence.*leap-jump;when your heart leaps up,you experience a sudden,very strong feeling of surprise or happiness.*behold-see,My Heart Leaps Up,So was it when my life began When I was young,I was v

17、ery happy when I saw a rainbow.So is it now I am a manNow I grow up,Im still very happy when I see a rainbow.This line insinuates that Wordsworth found life to be beautiful and still believes so to this day.*So was it It was so,My Heart Leaps Up,So be it when I shall grow oldWhen I am old,I hope tha

18、t Ill still be excited when I see a rainbow.Or let me die!If I dont,just let me die.Wordsworth claims that he would rather die than lose his wonder of the world.This represents his fervent wish to maintain pure love for nature.,My Heart Leaps Up,The child is father of the man This is a famous line f

19、or paradoxical expression.Father means fatherly or fatherlike.Child is fatherly to adult.This line suggests that the child produces the man.The man is made from childhood experiences.The past is the father of the present.And I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural pietyI wish I can b

20、e joyful over natural beauty through out my life.Wordsworth hopes that he will always appreciate the wonders of nature throughout his life.He treats the feelings of wonder,joy and awe at the sight of beautiful things as a manifestation of“piety”in the sense of reverence for Gods creations.*be bound

21、by st.-the thing is its most important aspects and it is limited or restricted by that thing.,My Heart Leaps Up,Lyrical ballad-It is a brief,often musical expression of the speakers emotion.Theme-He hopes never to lose adoration of nature like a child as he grows old.-Represents the relationship of

22、the child to the world,and,consequently,with the relationship of the adult to the child,and through the child the relationship of the adult to nature.Rhyme scheme A B C C A B C D E For many of the Romantics,the memories or visions of an idyllic childhood become a powerful emotive force as they aspir

23、ed for life of greater harmony and simplicity.,My Heart Leaps Up,Symbolism-The concept of the rainbow can be construed as hope,promises or even a fulfilled dream.-Some cultures believe that the rainbow is a bridge to the afterlife,one for dead heroes to cross to reach paradise,or Valhalla.-The poem

24、as a whole is symbolic of the beauty of nature and Romanticism.,I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud,I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host,of golden daffodils;Beside the lake,beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuou

25、s as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.,I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud,The waves beside them danced,but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet co

26、uld not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed-and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:For oft,when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the

27、 daffodils.,I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud,The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme like ABABCCEach line is metered in iambic tetrameter.Each stanza represents meeting,familiarity,joy and pleasure of sympathy.-introduction,development,turn and conclusionThe theme o

28、f this poem is The pleasure of sympathy with nature.Using metaphors and similes creates imageries of daffodils-the reverse personification.,I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud,I wandered lonely as a cloud-A simile comparing the wondering of a man to a cloud drifting through the sky that looks lonely.I saw

29、a crowd,a host,of golden daffodils-A metaphor to compare the daffodils to a crowd of people and a host of angels.-Meeting daffodils.Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.-Personifying daffodils.This technique implies an inherent unity between man and nature,making it one of Wordsworths most basic a

30、nd effective methods for instilling in the reader the feeling the poet so often describes himself as experiencing.,I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud,This poem shows the process through which a poem is created.Wordsworths definition of poetry,in Lyrical Ballads preface:the spontaneous overflow of feelings

31、 and emotions recollected in tranquility.-The last stanza of this poem proves that only in a quiet atmosphere,when he is alone,and through his imagination(inward eye)he can remember an experience happened to him in the past and consequently that remembered thing can be the source of happiness for hi

32、m.this poem is about the ideal state in which Romantics of Wordsworths caliber believed to be as close to utopia as one could achieve.,I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud,this poem is about the ideal state in which Romantics of Wordsworths caliber believed to be as close to utopia as one could achieve.Whic

33、h is the bliss of solitude;it was thought that only within nature lay an ideal state,where one could be free without restraint and in a constant state of serenity in ones own loneliness,accompanied only by their own contemplative musings as companionship;such a state was considered to be as close to

34、 heaven as one could accomplish.,neoclassicism and Romanticism 1740-1850,These two styles of literature were considered enemies.One wanted to portray the absolute truthof life and the other wanted to depict reality through images of the wild and raw emotions thatprevailed after the Revolution.A vast

35、 gulf existed between them and the debate was often longand bitter,but in the end Romanticism emerged as the dominant style of this period.,rousseau,Descartes,What neoclassicism is,was born out of a rejection of the Rocco and late Baroque styles in the middle ofthe 18th century.These artists wanted

36、a style that could convey serious moral ideas such asjustice,honor,and patriotism.The movement was a profoundly educational one,for its devotees believed that the fine arts could and should spread knowledge and enlightenment.public and political concerns,social responsibility,manners The proper stud

37、y of mankind is Man(Alexander Pope)absolute,public,rational,humanist,was concerned with the expression of the individuals feelings and emotions.is an artistic,literary,and intellectual movement that originated around the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe,during the Industrial Revolution.w

38、as partly a revolt against aristocratic,social,and political norms of the Enlightenment periodreaction against the scientific rationalization of nature in art and literature.arguing for an epistemology based on nature emphasized intuition,imagination,and feeling,to a point that has led to some Roman

39、tic thinkers being accused of irrationalism.private,spiritual,universal through Spirit in nature and in humankindIts being prospered by publishing Athenum()by brothers Schlegel in Germany and Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in British.,What Romanticism is,Difference of neoclassicism and

40、romanticism,is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridgeis typically considered to have marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in literature.is kind of innovativebring poetry within the reach of the average man by writing the verses using normal,everyday language

41、 One of the main themes of Lyrical Ballads is the return to the original state of naturePurpose of it is to illustrate the manner in which our feelings and ideas are associated in a state of excitement,What Lyrical Ballads is!,I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling:i

42、t takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility:the emotion is contemplated till,by a species of reaction,the tranquility gradually disappears,and an emotion,kindered to that which was before the subject of contemplation,is gradually produced,and does itself actually exist in the mind.,Pr

43、eface to Lyrical Ballads,Preface to Lyrical Ballads discussed the elements of a new type of poetryreal language of men-avoids the poetic diction of much 18C poetry.a new type of poetry-the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility.“,Preface to Lyrical Ballads

44、,Used a technique that departs completely from the Neoclassical tradition where the emphasis was placed on order and balance and reasoned thoughts,even in form.Liberty to write in blank verse,often without punctuation between lines,underlining the Romantic ideal of emotion.Expression of emotion does

45、 not necessarily end at the last syllable of a heroic couplet,but Reason invariably did.,Wordsworth and the Revolution in Poetry,The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments.They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure.”by William Words worth.,It shows that he was affected by French revolutions the dignity of man.In other words to love public language means to love public.,