Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Nature, Morality, Mortality, And Memory Of William...

William Wordsworth is known for his works of poetry. It is easy to gather that Wordsworth’s poetry was not simple to understand from first glance, but his poems have gathered attention because of the themes that are in the works themselves. In these works, themes such as nature, morality, mortality, and memory are revealed. In several of Wordsworth’s poems, the theme of nature is used abundantly. The topic of nature in Wordsworth’s poetry has been noticed by several critics throughout the years. John Beer makes an excellent mention of nature by saying, â€Å"Wordsworth, especially in the late 1790s, are rather loosely thought of as having been primarily a nature poet† (Beer 1). It can be easily inferred that Wordsworth liked and enjoyed nature. In fact, in I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud, he mentions daffodils and trees. When referring to this poem, Neil Heims makes an important statement, â€Å"The simplicity of its language, the charm of its meter, the intimacy of first person narrator, and the visualized immediacy of its subject make it easy to enjoy and remember† (Heims 54). From the majority of Wordsworth’s works, nature is used so much talked about so much that it is no wonder Wordsworth enjoyed nature. Along the lines of nature, it is easy to see that Wordsworth digs in deep when talking about nature. He goes and describes every aspect of nature as if the reader could actually see what he was talking about. For example, in his poem Poems of the Naming of Places, the first line

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