To Wordsworth

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ou would believe that writers would support each other with the changes in their lives and the repercussions of it but during the 1800s some writers felt differently and this was the case for Percy Shelley a poet who expressed his disdain for the change in William Wordsworths’ writing in his poem “To Wordsworth.” Like many critics in this time period Shelley has the speaker reflect many of the complaints of the difference in Wordworth’s writing, the speaker speaks to the “Poet of Nature” in a degrading form of tone throughout the fourteen lined poem.
Like other’s when I first read this poem I saw it as a celebration of the life of William Wordsworth until I found out that Shelley died long before the eighty year old William’s Wordsworth had and that Shelley wasn’t celebrating Wordsworth’s life as a whole just the part of his life spent writing poetry the part of his life that was “alive” until it “died” when he took a government job, Shelley wasn’t the only one disappointed in the change of Wordsworth’s creative nature many modern critics believed that his creative change took plac...

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