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Recommended: Wordsworths treatment of nature

Judith Monarrez
Professor Hanscom
LIT 651
August 24, 2014
Romantic Revolutionaries: William Wordsworth and William Blake The Industrial Revolution was a big part of history and also had a big impact on Britain’s working class. While the Industrial Revolution may have made it easier for society, England’s underclasses were left devastated by the inability to support themselves after legislation converted common land into private land (Broadview, 8). The Romantic Movement flourished during this time and poets like William Wordsworth and William Blake wrote poetry to portray the issues happening around them. William Wordsworth wrote about nature and “vagrant dwellers” in his poetry and William Blake used imagery in his poetry to portray the brutal …show more content…

Nature was established as the measurement of sincerity in poems and that the “reaction to the colors and forms of Nature (Weaver, 434)” can be described as "an appetite (Weaver, 434)" for Wordsworth. In “The Integrity of Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”” by John R. Nabholtz, Nabholtz notes that the poem “concerns itself with union and interaction between man and nature (Nabholtz, 229).” Wordsworth uses the dramatic monologue in “Tintern Abbey” to take the reader through different stages of his life and different stages of his spiritual connection with nature. The stages start off with talk of the past, “Five years have past; five summers, with the length/Of five long winters! and again I hear/These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs/With a soft inland murmur (Lines1-4).” The five years that have passed since his last visit to Tintern Abbey gives him time to reflect on how nature has become an …show more content…

Some of the poems in this volume seem to share the same names as a few poems in Songs of Innocence but they both don’t say the same thing. They do read as companion pieces, almost continuations of the poems, but are different poems together. If they are companion pieces, which I feel they are, would the states they are in be the same as well? It is Blake’s voice we are reading so one would wonder if “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Innocence is the same “Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Experience. I would speculate that perhaps they are and the innocent chimney sweep is now the grown and experienced chimney sweep. This volume is much bigger than the previous volume of poems and each poem seems to go on a darker path than

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