Analysis Of The Ruined Cottage

Unit One- Thematic Paper Throughout England in the 1700s, British people were usually separated into two categories of power: the filthy rich (people of higher power), and the ones who were considered poor (lower class). The ones considered under the high power category, never seen the heartache poor individuals went through to make ends meet. Many poor individuals worked in the industries making enough money to survive. However something horrific began to arouse the British people whom worked in industries, technology had produced factory machines that needed a couple to one individual to help them operate. These machines took over a lot of the British people’s jobs, causing them to be pink-slipped by the owners of the factory and agricultural

Poetry was a way they could express themselves when they faced a troublesome time. Two famous poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, explain this tragedy through spiritual poetry. They help us realize how the higher power was blinded when it came to the well-being of the lower class because they only cared about themselves and did not consider opening their eyes to seeing what their world was coming to. Also, poets before Wordsworth and Coleridge used blank verse as describing someone speaking from a higher power. However, these men used this form to raise the poor to a higher power, which caused us to see the spirit of democracy. William Wordsworth wrote the poem “The Ruined Cottage” which was written in 1797. Wordsworth explained through poetry, how many mothers who lost a husband began to drive them insane due to the fact that during this time women had limited options of work; they usually spun fabric or sowed. These women eventually passed away from lack of nourishment and sadness from losing their children. Wordsworth wanted others to know that the sorrow and grief given to the ones who suffered should not be seen by an unworthy eye, meaning do not be hastened to judge others, but to understand everyone’s

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As we look at line 511, “The forms of things with an unworthy eye,” Wordsworth symbolized this line of poetry with seeing each individual equally. The spirit of democracy throughout this poem is not seeing people as higher or lower power; it is seeing others as equal power as the other individual. A famous poet, Samuel Coleridge, wrote the poem “Frost at Midnight”. Coleridge wrote the poem to describe how he wanted a better life for his son than he had as a young lad. He illustrated that during his childhood, he lived in a lonely city raised alone, and describe that he wanted his son to live through nature, which they believed was connected to God. Coleridge did not want his son to live a sad and gloomy life; he wanted him to have happiness.

Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores

And mountain crags; so shall thou see and hear

The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible

Of that eternal language, which thy