Assignment Wordsworth and his contribution

Name:- Hinaba D. Sarvaiya

Roll no:- 09 

Paper no:-103 Literature of the Romantics

Email id :- hinabasarvaiya1711@gmail.com

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Submitted to:- English Department MKBU.

William Wordsworth and his Contribution.

Introduction of The Poet:-

William Wordsworth, English poet whose Lyrical Ballads in 1798, written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement. Is the one of the most well-respected and revered poets in British history; even in his own time, he was England's poet laureate in 1843. 

William had three brothers: Richard, John and Christopher . He also had a sister named Dorothy. His mother died in 1778, when William was only eight years old, then his father died in 1783, when he was thirteen. Wordsworth didn't have many memories of his mother. He once said "O lost too early for the frequent tear". However, he remembers her more than he remembers his father. At age seven was the last time he saw his mother before she died of a decline, which she got after catching a cold and it turned into pnemonia. His mother was more anxious about his future life than she was for the other children.

His poetry later on showed his thoughts and his action when he was a child. Wordsworth has said "l was on a stiff , moody, and violent temper". He was a child that liked to disobey. As a child, he was very violent towards nature. William and Dorothy became very close as they got older.

Most of the passages he wrote was during the time he spent in Cambridge where he describes his experience. The time he spent there he had no mother, his father was never really around, and his grandparents disapproved of them, so he tried to make the most of it while he was there.

Wordsworth view of nature:-

The French revolution made William Wordsworth use writing as a self defence of war and returning to the nature which he used as a premise element in writing. William Wordsworth was one of the prominent of romantic poetry, he expressed his feeling in the natural world rather than in reason because he always tried to build a better future for the world. William Wordsworth's writings about a series of cultural practice with photography, his writing were early instructor for art museum. In his writings he was used simple language to describe geographical places or special places as painterly landscapes in the 19th century. Wordsworth's description of nature was not the nature of Darwin, or Isaac Newton, neither nature of Stephen Hawking. William Wordsworth created in his mind, his desire for writing , upbringing in a middle class, and his education at Cambridge. In the 19th century Wordsworth created a new version of nature, "it was mostly male, white, upper-middle class, very literary, and very romantic". Wordsworth was from England, a pastoral person, he believed that there is a strong relationship between human and nature. He always tried to declare the power, the blessing of nature in our lives, and he had personal experience about nature in everywhere, he said behind each his poem has a valuable purpose. Moreover, Wordsworth regarded as a great poet of nature because most of his poem asserted of human being's dependence on nature. Examples of poems:

 

"The World is Too Much with Us" which was written in 1802 and published in 1807 in this poem Wordsworth frustrated of human's treatment of nature, and deny the natural elements of nature:

"This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; 

The winds that will be howling at all hours," 

"The Prelude", "Lines written in Early Spring"(1798) in this poem Wordsworth described that the nature is loyal to man:

"I heard a thousand blended notes, 

While in a grove I sate reclined, 

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts 

Bring sad thoughts to the mind"

"The Tables Turned" (1798) is a good example for William Wordsworth's believe about the power of nature:

"Up! Up! My friend, and quit your books;

Or surely you'll grow double:

Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks;

Why all this toil and trouble?"

Are William Wordsworth's poems which he expressed his feeling of nature in different ways. Other poems like:

"Tintern Abbey":-

 

Is William Wordsworth most famous poems, published in 1798. It is a conversational poem that contains elements of an Ode and dramatic monologue. The poem is based on a small place situated in the village of Tintern in monmouthshire, on the Welsh bake of the river Wye. Wordsworth, through this poem, helps his readers understand his philosophies on nature and its beauty.

Ode: Intimations of Immoratality:-

Referred to as Wordsworth greatest ode, the poem explores the narrators divine relationship with nature. The poem compares the deep connection between a child and the nature, which is lost when the child grows and loses his divine vision. However, the narrator's recollections of the past allows him to relive his relationship with nature.

London 1802:-

"Oh! raise us up, return to us again;

And give us manners, virtue, freedom,power."

Composed in 1802 itself, the poem is medium that Wordsworth uses to reprimand his fellow English people for becoming selfish and morally stagnant. He eulogises 17th century poet John Milton and explains how Milton could improve the present situation of England if he was alive. Through "London 1802", Wordsworth shed light upon the deteriorating conditions of the English society while paying homage to Milton. 

William Wordsworth

Michael by William Wordsworth

Financial ruin, a lost son, and hostile living conditions– these are some of the striking features of this sorrowful ballad. You may find yourself asking, how can one man maintain his values amid so many struggles?

Wordsworth explores this question and more in ‘Michael.’ He also makes it clear that despite its visual beauty, life in the country isn’t always as ideal as it seems.

‘Michael’ written in 1800 at Grasmere and published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads. The poem deals with man’s struggle in this hostile world to maintain his values and reputation, through the life of Michael, a lonely former. As Bernard Groom remarks about the poem, “Wordsworth’s picture of rural life in Michael is less idyllic and nearer to historical truth than some readers may suppose.”(The Unity of Wordsworth Poetry)

Michael by William Wordsworth

Introduction of the poem:-

‘Michael’ is a simple pastoral poem that bears the closest resemblance to the bareness of solitude in the mountain as well as the difficult life lead by the people in the mountains.

Michael is a story of a man’s struggle to maintain himself and his values in a hostile universe. As Wordsworth himself stated, this tale of Michael heard when he was a boy, led him to feel for other men and to think ‘on man, the heart of man, and human life.’ The poem depicts the story of an old shepherd, his wife, and their son, Luke.

As the son grew up, he became his father’s ‘comfort and daily hope.’ When the boy is eighteen, Michael had to discharge the debts of a nephew for whom he has given surety. To compensate for this loss, he sends his son to a wealthy distant relative for employment. Before his departure, Michael instructs Luke of his obligations towards his forefathers. He needs to lay a cornerstone as a sacred promise to fulfill his duty. But, when the boy goes into the world, he is distraught, and the outer world tempts him. He leaves old Michael and his wife alone to take care of themselves.

Theme and Setting:-

Michael is a tragic poem that deals with the traumatic life of Michael, a shepherd with dignity. Wordsworth focuses on man’s struggle to maintain himself and his values in a hostile world that tries to pull him down. It delineates how an orderly life of a man breaks up into disconnectedness and chaos.

"Break, Break, Break" Poem by Tennyson.

 

"Break, Break, Break" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson written during early 1835 and published in 1842. The poem is an elegy that describes Tennyson's feelings of loss after Arthur Henry Hallam died and his feelings of isolation while at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.

 "Break, break, break,

         On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!

And I would that my tongue could utter

         The thoughts that arise in me."

 The speaker addresses the waves of the sea, telling them to crash against the rocky shore again and again. Watching this happen, the speaker yearns for the ability to express troubling thoughts that won't go away.

 "O, well for the fisherman's boy,

         The shouts with his sister at play!

O, well for the sailor lad, 

         That he sings in his boat on the bay!"

 Looking out onto the water, the speaker watches a fisherman's son yelling out while playing with his sister, as well as a young sailor who sings while sailing through the cove

 "And the stately ships go on

To their haven under the hill;

But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,

 And the sound of a voice that is still!"

 There are also impressive boats sailing through the bay, and the speaker envisions them passing into ideal, somewhat heavenly destinations. But watching these ships doesn't distract the speaker from the memory of touching the hand of an acquaintance who no longer exists, whose voice has gone silent forever.

 "Break, break, break

 At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead

Will never come back to me."

 Again, the speaker calls out to the waves as they smash against cliffs along the shoreline again and again, feeling that the easy happiness of previous days will never return.

Theme:-

Death:-

The poem is indirectly about death. However Tennyson also refers to it directly. The metaphor in stanza three alludes to death.

"And the stately ships go on/To their haven under the hill".

The ship is a metaphor  of life, now gone to its rest. The poet speaks about the hand that vanished and the voice that is still. The opening stanzas make no such reference to the poet's dead friend, but merely prepare the reader for it. Another direct reference to death of the day: "But the tender grace of a day that is dead/will never come back to me".

Elegy:-

The elegy is one of the most popular poetic forms during the Victorian period. It is a form of the poetry that laments the dead or the past. This poem is elegiac. It is one of many poem that Tennyson wrote in response to the death of a close friend.

Figure of Speech:-

Rhyme Scheme:-

In the stanza, the rhyme scheme is abcb.

Metaphor:-

The ship is a metaphor of life.

Personification:-

"A day that is dead".

Synecdoche:-

It is a figure of speech in which the part of something refers to whole as in "But for the touch of a Vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still".

Paradox:- 

IT is a statement that is apparently contradictory as in touch of a Vanished hand, and " the sound of a voice that is still".

Thinking Activity- Importance of being Earnest

 

Here I am share my views on "The Importance of being Earnest" subtitle "A serious Comedy for Trivial People", Wilde decided to change it to ''A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" this blog my classroom activity. Let started with why change  subtitle Wilde in his comedy. 

" The importance of being Earnest is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy... That we should treat all the trivial things of life, very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality".

- Oscar Wilde from a January 1895 interview with. Robbie Ross published in the st. Fames guzette.

Oscar Wilde's play The  Importance of being Earnest derives much of its comic and thematic way in which it inverts the values of everyday life. This play is presented the serious issues in comic way. Serious topic like that death, love and religious. Examples like Algernon proposed to Cecily that time she say:

"Today I broken off my engagement with earnest. I feel it is better to do so. The weather still continues charming".

Though Wilde originally gave the play the subtitle A serious Comedy for Trivial People. This is an appropriate subtitle as the play deals with a great deal of triviality and nonsense throughout the play. Wilde show to many aspects of Victorian society in this play. Algernon, Bracknell, Cecily belong to the upper class. Wilde is parodying the normal views of people in the Victorian era, as they focus more on the very minor and unimportant things, highlighting their superficiality. He wanted to make people more aware of the the more important things in life, which he does by parodying the Victorian society views and ideals such as things like religion and marriage. Religious and marriage are usually to things that are  held in very high regards by others, but by mocking them, Wilde is making people aware of how nonsensical they are acting and how stupied they look at times.this is done by the clever usage of epigrams, paradoxes, irony and sarcasm.

One main idea that Wilde constantly voices throught the play is the superficiality of the upper classes, mainly the female. Lady Bracknell, main female character in the play, is the caricature of the upper classes. This character is very attentive in this play. She also love with money and she decided to his daughter marriage only for the good mam in financial status, and  he belong to good family. She focuses mainly on things that are trivial and does not show too much interest in thing that are important. And Bracknell is interviewing jack, to see if he is fit to wed her daughter Gwendolen, the first question she asks it not something essential, such as a political views or a question about his employment. She starts the interview with a completely trifling jack smokes or not. The last question she poses to him is of his birth and family. Other examples like that the Gwendolen and Cecily love only for name Like Earnest. Not the named of Earnest we are denied the marrid Jake and Algernon. This is very serious issues present with comic way. Jack and Algernon try to a convincing to find your love with real name but we  are failed. 

Of  Wilde openly and publicly insulted them by reffering to them as "trivial  people" they would not attend and might even react more forcefully. Despite his efforts, however, people did indeed realise he was Calling them trivial though his comedy and in part this caused the play to be banned.

Here I am end of my writing is subtitle a series comedy of trivial people, and Wilde changed the title it to a trivial Comedy for serious people it is very appropriate this play.

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Thinking Activity- The Rover by Aphra Behn's

  

The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn. Now the deal those below questions though my understanding.

# Angellica Considers the financial negotiations which one makes before marriying a prospective bride the same as prostitution. Do you agree?

Two things I clear that now:

Prostitution:-

Occurs when one person provides another person with sex or sexual service for money.

Marriage:-

Is when two people decide to change their legal standing from two seperate individuals to a family unit. Sex usually enters into the relationship being the most common way to produce offspring but also because it feels good, but marrige isn't about providing services in exchange for sex.

Now  'The Rover' Angellica Bianca is a renowned courtesan who changes 1000 crowns a month for her companionship. She hanged an advertising poster outside her home and prides herself on the power she has over men. 

Angellica makes a good point marriage and prostitution are both relationship that are customarily contingent, to varying degrees, upon financial considerations. They are of course not entirely the same, but it would seem hypocritical to denounce one and participate in the other.

The point of this statement is to acknowledge that marriage can be just as a moral as prostitution if one considers placing a monetary value on love the reason behind prostitution's a morality.

Class and money:-

The Rover Cavaliers constantly becam the fact that they do not have sufficient funds, while Don Pedro picks a husband for his sister based almost solely upon fortune. Angelica, too, is obsessed with money, and must crucially decide whether she will give her heart, to willmore for free, or hold out for the highest bidder. In fact the theme of money and love often become intertwined in the play, as characters speak each other credit. The world in which they live is a capitalistic one and money pervades even the most emotion of issues.

 Angellica rightly say that the financial negotiations which one makes before marriying a prospective bride the same as prostitution. Aphra Behn's show real pictures of the society in Victoria era. Money is most important for the marriage. More money and richest people are mostly live happily and financial condition is most important for the marriage.

Thinking Activity- Hard Time by Charles Dickens.

 Hello guys!!

Here I am deal with Hard Time written by Charles Dickens. I am particularly describe the main theme of utilitarianism in this novel.

Definition:- 

"The ethical doctrine that the moral worth pf an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility, defined as happiness or pleasure".

 Opening line :-

Now, what I want is facts. Teach those boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else.

Whole novel surrounding word by fact, fact and fact. This is important and emotions and imagination not space.

In the novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens connives a theme of utilitarianism, along with education and industrialisation. Utilitarianism is the belief that something is morally right if it helps a majority of people. It is a principle involving nothing but facts and leaves no room for creativity or imagination.

His novel Hard Times demonstrates the invasion of utilitarianism and its economic implications into human relationships and education. Dickens philosophy of utilitarianism based on industrial England, founded by Jeremy Bentham.

Hard Times the centre utilitarian character is Thomas Gradgrind, a school owner and father who forces the children under his mandate to memorize facts, facts, facts...not space of own imagination and emotions. Only logical think important to build of good career.  The children are encouraged to maximize utility through their actions by basing their decisions on selfish. In turn, the children are punished for enjoying artistic entertainment such as storybooks about fairies and watching circus performers with lives dominated by facts and avoid of art. Gradgrind's children ultimately followed the system of fact we are the complexity of justice and emotion.

Gradgrind first meet in Sissy, a girl at his school who is different think character. She belong the circus Performer.sissy is of another world, that of the circus that is governed by art and emotion. Which contrasts with Gradgrind's school and Upper-class home, governed by facts, logic and selfishness. Sissy fails, both at school and at home, to comply with the mathematical rationalization of utilitarianism because she is empathetic, creatively, and emotions.

Like Bentham the school teacher that notion are thriving when they are maximizing utility by achieving pleasure for majority. Whe Sissy Is told by a teacher about questions like a city where only 25 of one million inhabitants were starving. She replied :

" It must be just as hard upon those who were starved".

She is asked by the teacher if a nation with fifty million of money is a prosperous nation. In a response that reflects the concerns of degrowthers with income inequality, she says she couldn't know whether ti is a prosperous or thriving nation, "unless I know who had got the money and whether any of it was mine..but that was not in the figures at all." Here sissy give a Anwer with emotion and creativily but she teacher told u give answer with logically. She not think about a cause for the reason.

Dickens ultimate message is to how the value of imagination, art and human connection in a place dominated by fact and rationality. When last of the scene Tom Gradgrind's children, Louisa and Tom face hardship because they followed their father's utilitarian thinking. It is ultimately sissy who will be the one who pilots change in the imagination of the Gradgrinds. Sissy is a magnetic storyteller, someone who can light the spark in the minds of others that illuminates a new vision of the world. Thay vision might be a fantastic one of fairies and other forest spirits.or of a different, more compassionate future. We see this in sissy undying hope that her father might still come back home to one day. She has faith in a better tomorrow that is based on love, not a material improvement. Finally Grandgrind believed in emotion. This are different elements of the life: live with fact Or important of imagination and emotions in life. Here I am end of my description theme of utilitarianism through Gradgrind.

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Thinking Activity- Pamela

 Hello readers;

I am deal with the Pamela  a reliable narrator this  task given by our professor. Let's discuss..

 

Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel frist published in 1740 by English writer Samuel Richardson considered one of the first true English novel, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature about marriage.

These attributes here :-

- shares values with the implied author and reader.

- Accurately tells the story to the best of his ability.

- Tries to stay objective or has no stake in the story.

 In short, Pamela is a didactic representative of virtue. This virtue is presented to us in the story of Pamela's resistance against the sexual advances Mr.B. and indeed, on the level of the narration itself Pamela is treated and presented as both an extremely virtuous girl and a reliable narrator.

The reason for this is that Pamela's story is far more than the narration of the experience of a servant girl. It always was and obviously still is a matter of politics and political correctness, almost comparable to the alleged sexual affairs of President Clinton. In Pamela's case, however, we do not ask whether he really did it. Nobody wants to spare Mr.B. the embarrassment of being guilty of sexual harassment. Pamela's virtue, she shares with Mr.B. Clinton. Both have been elected to hold a powerful public position, with the difference that Pamela has not been elected by the people but by her author samuel Richardson.

Pamela's virtue is a role model for every woman's behaviour, an instrument to teach proper conduct. Pamela th follow description applies to her: she is regured as "worthy to be followed in the most critical and affecting cases by the virgin, the bride, and the wife".

Richardson's intention to create such a pattern for every lady in the country in the form of an epistolary novel causes several problems. He knows that story become a virtue has to be entertaining to be read and able influence of reader. Richardson's described the divert and entertain and to instruct and improve at the same time. He also wished to do this story so probable, so natural and so sensible.

Pamela is convinced that the she has s a reliable narrator. In her opinion her letters and journal entries contain all her 

" Private thoughts..and all the secrets of my heart"

But everybody know that the writer's judgement it not a necessary correct. Pamela has to prove her reliability as a narrator and a narrator who tells fairy tales and romances is far from being regarded as trustworthy. 

The story revolves around Pamela and her intimate and private thoughts and experiences many also call it a 'psychological' novel. In the novel is viewed as the epitome of virtuous and Christan femininity with her dedication to chastity docility and humanity.

Curiously, many of the same gender stereotypes we assign to men and women the understanding of masculinity and femininity all the way back in the mid  18th century.

" You are so pretty, that, go where you will, you can never be free from the design of some of our sex".

Wind of my point with so many discussion through Pamela character, this novel she represent women behaviour.

John Keats- Presentation.

Hello Readers!

I am Hinaba Sarvaiya, a Student of the department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. This blog is the part of my Classroom activity that is given by our prof. Yesha mam.

Here I am sharing my presentation link in this blog. The topic is Romantic poet John Keats. I am deal with his life and his notable work through my presentation. I hope u are enjoying.

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