Points to be focused Introduction of Poet & Poem “The Prelude” Books History FORM (language of poetry) Themes in poems Relevance with aspects
Introduction Of Poet 1770-1850 Known as a father of Romantic poetry Revolutionized poetry He wrote about ordinary life and nature in common language By the time he was 13 and he was an orphan
William Wordsworth Bore and raised in beautiful lake district of England – this beautiful natural environment became the basis of his poems He graduated from Cambridge and travel to Europe Spent time in France where he embraced the ideals of the French Revolution
The book history He wrote 1 st version in 1799 Contain 2 books In 1805, expanded the contents and separated into 13 books Next 35 year of life spent in revising the poem Style and esthetics When he died in 1850, He had divided the book into 14 books Now ‘’The Prelude” contain 14 Books
Over view of Wordsworth Book 1 st Book is about his Childhood and society reactions 2 nd Book is about his abilities 3 rd book is about experience entering in college life 4 th book is about return to his countryside and realization 5 th is about human vanity 6 th is about return to college and experience of hiking in France 7th love for theater (Fictional Work) 8 th Book return to countryside and understand people 9 th & 10 th ( French Revolution ) including 11 th in theme 12 th return to nature and heal his mind 13 th philosophical poetry (tranquility)
Introduction to poem Prelude means (Event Severing as an introduction) Attempt based on perception of the world (surrounding) Portrait Events (From childhood to his whole life) Review (auto-biographical & philosophical) Wordsworth conceived the poem as a preface for The recluse
The Recluse was to be his greater work (Philosophy) The Recluse was never finished He discusses the creation of the poet Autobiographical
Wordsworth`s legacy The start of romantic movement Rural life is consider to be heaven Celebrate the immediate, the emotional and the personal A value of personal experience and reaction
In addition to The prelude Focus (The simple miracles of perceptions and Experience) Thought long and deep Vivid direct image and description
Language & Forms Blank verse -Unrhymed -Iambic Pentameter Tone: Freedom How it is Epic.? -Priestly robe, Holy services, Aeolian visitations
Blank verse Be no thing be tter than a wan dering cloud I look a bout ; and should the cho sen guide Would glad ly grap ple with some no ble theme Our ob ject and in glo rious, yet the end – One end at least hath been at tained ; my mind
Tone of writer Freedom -escaped / From the vast city, where I long had pined / A discontented sojourner: now free, / Free as a bird to settle where I will. Devout -poetic numbers came / Spontaneously to clothe in priestly robes / A renovated spirit singled out, / Such hope was mine, for holy services.
How it is Epic Long Narrative Well defined purpose Division into pieces (Books) Characters Travelling Development Complex Story Romantic epic
Character Nature (Guide) William Wordsworth (Hero) Industrial Society (Villain)
Parallels Nature, Childhood, Innocence and Purity Industrial Society, Adulthood, Corruption