Concetti Chiave
- William Wordsworth was inspired by radical ideas and initially supported the French Revolution, but became disillusioned by its turn to dictatorship.
- After returning to the UK, he collaborated with Coleridge in the Lake District to create "Lyrical Ballads," a cornerstone of English Romanticism.
- Wordsworth defined poetry as the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," emphasizing emotions recollected in tranquility.
- His poetry uses simple language to highlight everyday human subjects like wanderers, rustics, and children, along with natural themes.
- Wordsworth's work reflects a pantheistic vision, portraying nature as essential to human consciousness and spiritual understanding.
Indice
L'ispirazione radicale e la rivoluzione francese
This author was inspired by radical ideas and was also a supporter of the french revolution.
He studied at a grammar school and he graduated at Cambridge in 1791, exactly during the development of the french revolution.
He traveled then in France, but he was disappointed in seeing that french revolution became a dictation (terror by Robespierre) so he came back to UK. When he came back he went living in Dorset with the sister, then moved again to lake district, where he wrote the lyrical ballads after meeting Coleridge, which preface is the manifest of romantic movement.
He was very appreciated for his conservatism.
He has been the first poet ever to define the ideals and the values of the English romanticism.
La dichiarazione di poesia e il linguaggio comune
Declaration of poetry: poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, the result of the "emotions recollected in tranquility".
In his poetry he uses common and easy language and adds new sets of human subjects at the center of his works:
Lonely wanderers
Rustics
Poor country-people
Children
And natural subjects:
Wild flowers
Rainbows
Natural scenes
La visione panteistica e la natura
He is able to "see into the life of things", and uses common language to describe pure emotions and subjects in a big variety of verse form.
-He teaches people how to see things.-
Man in relation with nature develops his consciousness: feelings, that can be developed only with nature.
He has a pantheistic vision: man belongs to nature
!!Nature is the seat of the spirit of the universe!!
Nature is linked to senses perception. Man can perceive nature through senses.
Il processo poetico di Wordsworth
process:
Object
Poet
Sensory experience
Emotion
Memory
Recollection in tranquility
Kindred emotion
Poem
Reader
Same emotion (point 4)
The poem Daffodils is the cloud of Wordsworth's poetry.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è stata l'influenza della Rivoluzione Francese su Wordsworth?
- Come definisce Wordsworth la poesia e quali soggetti predilige?
- Qual è la visione di Wordsworth riguardo alla natura e all'uomo?
Wordsworth fu ispirato dalle idee radicali e sostenne la Rivoluzione Francese, ma rimase deluso dal suo sviluppo in una dittatura sotto Robespierre, il che lo portò a tornare nel Regno Unito.
Wordsworth definisce la poesia come un "flusso spontaneo di sentimenti potenti" e utilizza un linguaggio comune, concentrandosi su soggetti umani come vagabondi solitari, rustici, poveri e bambini, oltre a soggetti naturali come fiori selvatici e arcobaleni.
Wordsworth ha una visione panteistica, vedendo l'uomo come parte della natura. Crede che la natura sia il luogo dello spirito dell'universo e che l'uomo possa sviluppare la propria coscienza e percepire la natura attraverso i sensi.
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