The Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats
John Locke (1632-1704) sparked the "Age of Reason" by teaching that all true knowledge must be empirically verified. Empiricism taught that "a statement is meaningful only if it can be verified empirically (Sproul 103)." Thus any statements about metaphysical entities (e.g. God, Unicorns, Love, and Beauty) would be meaningless terms because they cannot be proven by the scientific method. In revolt, Rousseau (1712-1778) cried: "Let us return to nature" (Schaeffer 154) because only in nature can the spirit of mankind be found meaningful. He saw the sciences turning mankind into mere machines bereft of essence. He cried that "Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains" because empiricism caused mankind to think that meaningful thought must be verified by science. Rousseau saw this as dangerous to the freedom of mankind and thus sparked the Romantic movement; which sought to revive mankind by portraying life and nature in all its glory. Two poets that romanced nature during this era were: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and John Keats (1795-1821). This essay has been written to compare how Wordsworth and Keats use nature in their poetry.
The Wordsworthian Revolt
We will begin this inquiry by looking at Wordsworth, who is considered the first of the Romantic poets and published his first volume of poems in 1793. Wordsworth uses nature in three ways: He writes that (1) Nature should be our teacher, (2) We should find beauty in Nature, and (3) We should find our joy in Nature.
Wordsworth believed "nature was mankind's best moral teacher. Nature was, in fact, his rel...
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The magnifier of the microscope has three magnifications (4X, 10X, 40X) and can increase when the user wants a closer look at the object he is viewing. The higher the magnification, the more information the user can obtain about that object. Holden does this in his interactions with people. If the person seems interesting, he wants to know more about them and tries to get closer to them. But if he considers them to be phony, he is not inquisitive and does not feel that he must take a closer look at them, other than what he sees on the surface.
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To begin discussion about the HGP, we first must understand what it is. It is a massive undertaking of collaboration of geneticists that begin in 1990. Their goals are to identify all the estimated 80,000 to 100,000 genes in human DNA and determine the sequences of 3 billion bases composed of adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. The project is being funded jointly by the Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health. This massive undertaking is estimated at a cost of three billion dollars, with the most current target date for the project's completion at the year 2003. They will then store this information in a centralized database so it can be used as tools for their analysis. Also as a first for science, they are going to address the logical, ethical, and social issues that the project will give rise to.
On an evolutionary perspective, gossip was developed as a way of maintaining social relationships. Itself, it serves a form of ‘verbal grooming’ which may be similar to ‘social grooming’ (Hummel, 2009) seen in primates. In depth, primates were seen to have groomed other primates ‘far beyond necessity’ (A. Hummel) which would suggest that grooming is a very important aspect of socializing and building bonds in primate life. As humans, gossip facilitates the need for social maintenance. It functions ‘to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of relationships…reinforcing soc...
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Through the years, gossip has developed a negative connotation among society, in spite of the fact that academic definitions gave no encouragement to regard the phenomenon as spiteful or unpleasant. Yet, it is regularly denounced as inappropriate and immoral (Levin...
Through the poems of Blake and Wordsworth, the meaning of nature expands far beyond the earlier century's definition of nature. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." The passion and imagination portrayal manifest this period unquestionably, as the Romantic Era. Nature is a place of solace where the imagination is free to roam. Wordsworth contrasts the material world to the innocent beauty of nature that is easily forgotten, or overlooked due to our insensitivities by our complete devotion to the trivial world. “But yet I know, where’er I go, that there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
At times, gossip can even be noted as a healthy social activity. Gossipers are portrayed as the gatekeepers of information, choosing to relay or hold on to information about others. As a result, these social savvy individuals are gaining power by using the weapon of speech to hinder and alter the social reputations of others. Individuals around any person that has gained power by gossip will defecate in influencing others to gossip as well. If sixty-five percent of our time speaking accounts to gossip, then that only leaves us with the rest of the twenty-five percent of a conversation not being related to anyone you know. My friends and I recently conducted a small experiment where none of us were allowed to gossip for at least 24 hours. The first couple of hours were fairly easy due to the fact that I was alone but, as soon as my friends and I got together, it took an immense amount of effort to stray away from talking about other people. That just goes to show that those sixty-five percent of the things you would have conversed would go unsaid, therefore, overall, us humans would be much quieter and
Since people depend on socializing as a way of survival, gossiping merits friendships.There’s no better bond with friends than when you can’t stand the same person. “Gossip makes up about two-thirds of the naturally occurring conversations of adult men and women,” (Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Psychology Today). According to Peggy Drexler (“Why We Love to Gossip”, Psychology Today), gossip allows us to “bond with others”