Hello everyone, I'm Aarti Sarvaiya, a student of English department, Bhavnagar University.In this blog I am going to give the answers of several questions. This blog is a task given by Barad Sir.
Wordsworth's Preface
1). What is basic difference between the poetic creed of "Classicism and Romanticism"?.
Definition :-
Classicism :- The imitation or use primarily of the style and aesthetic principles of ancient Greek and Roman classical art and literature. The turm 'neo-classical' is often used in referring to revival of Classicism.
Romanticism :- It is a movement in the literature that lasted from about 1750 to above 1870 , characterised by reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach ,freedom of thought and expression and an idealization of nature.
Difference between the poetic creed of 'Classicism and Romanticism' :-
Basic difference between the Classicism and Romanticism are .,
There are two ideology in Classicism and Romanticism.,
1). School of thought
2). Technic of way
Subject you choose about your work of art is something more than ideology. It has given us an idea of dominance of certain things in Classicism and cartain other things in Romanticism.
Classicism and Neo-classicism prevents in England during the later half of eighteenth century.
Romantic writer Wordsworth ,Keats, Shelly were an imaginative or highly imaginative writers or poets. But the Classical writers Alexander Pope , Dryden were intellectual.
Second defference is that In Classicism , restrain is the rulling word,they believe that they should be restrained,But in Romanticism,They believe in freedom and liberty. They believes that"the men is the free to express in the way he likes".
The Classical writers relied in the Classical masters like Pope and Dryden . They follows their work of art,city life and urban life was also consider in Classicism. But Romantic writer turn for the inspiration not for the classical masters but for the mediaeval poets.
Wordsworth's definition of poetry :-
" A good poetry spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ,recollected in tranquility".
Romantic writers defines mosty rustic life ,rural life in thair poetry but Classicism writers defines urban life and city life.
Romantic writers wrote their poetry mostly subjective and Classical writers wrote their poetry mostly Objective. They believes that a good poetry should be objective.
So ,this are the basic defference between the poetic creed of Classicism and Romanticism.
2). Why does Wadsworth say 'What is poet? ' rather than who is poet?.
Here , Wordsworth tries to differs poets from the normal human with the use of 'What' rather than 'Who'.
Normally , with a person we attach who . We defines all the normal people with the use of who and poet is different from the normal man.
They differs from their degree , their passion ,their style of seeing something creatively which normal people cannot see like a poet. That's why Wordsworth say what is poet rather than who is poet ,here he defines poets from the normal man with the use of 'What' rather than 'Who'.
FOR EXAMPLE :-
The word 'Soul', normal people says that my soul hurts ,here Wordsworth says a word for poet that poets have comprehensive soul or more comprehensive soul rather than a soul.
What is poet according to Wordsworth :-
"The imagination of the poet where things do not exist even then the poet can create something".
" A poet is a man speaking to men , endowed with more lively sensibility , more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature,and a more comprehensive soul, who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life ; habitually impelled to creative volitions , passing and situations where he does not find them".
Poets is completely different from the normal man , he is a kind of normal man. He is not coming from the other plannet but his thinking and observation style deffers them from a simple man.
3). What is poetic diction ? Which sort of poetic diction is suggested in his Preface ?.
Language is very important part of work. So we should use the language carefully.
Poetic diction means a choice of words.
Poetic diction means an unique style for each individual poet or Author.
Poetic diction means a choice of words and language.
Poetic diction means a unique style for each individual poet or Author.
The language are more artificial of any poet or writers because they use figurative language and imaginative language in their works that's why their language attracts reader to read their work.
Language is really used by a man but writer's style of writing differs their language to a simpal men's language.
Sometimes a single word gives various different meanings, it can be misunderstanding if you doesn't use it carefully.
FOR EXAMPLE :-
Michael: A Pastoral Poem (1800)
"Michael" is a pastoral poem, written by William Wordsworth and first published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, a series of poems that were said to have begun the English Romantic movement in literature. The poem is one of Wordsworth's best-known poems and the subject of much critical literature. It tells the story of an ageing shepherd, Michael, his wife Isabel, and his only child Luke.
Above is shown the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads. "Michael" was added in Wordsworth's 1800 edition.
Analyses have claimed "Michael" to have been a political statement regarding the modernization of England, due to the advent of the enclosure system—erasing the idyllic pastoral way of life that Michael formerly enjoyed.
Michael is a simple pastoral poem but does not follow the exact definition of it. The poem tells the pathetic life tale of a poor shepherd. The setting of the poem is pastoral as it happens around the place in “Greenhead hill.” But, it lacks the artistic beauty and mood of the typical pastoral poems. The poem is conceived of a great mind like that of Wordsworth, an acclaimed nature poet, thus earned the credit of a pastoral poem despite him missing out to meet up the standard of traditional pastoral farm and style.
This poem is based on rural life or a farmers life. Michael is a protagonist of the poem and he is a farmer ane here he tries to define all the farmers life but here we cannot imagines all the farmers life from one farmers life.
4). What is Poetry ?
According to Wordsworth," Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : It takes emotion recollected in tranquility".
Poetry means literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
The development of poetry is the strongest characteristics of the Elizabethan Age. Poetry influenced frame. Great genius like Sidney ,Spenser ,Marlowe and Shakespeare created the atmosphere of singing music. Poetry found new field of expressing the emotions. At the time, the atmosphere of England was full of song. That is why it is said England became the nest of singing birds.
Three chief forms of poetry flourished during the Elizabethan Age. They where,.
- The Lyrics
- The Sonnet
- Narrative Poetry
- The lyrics is a short poem that expresses a poet's personal emotions in a song like style.
- Thomas Campion wrote many beautiful lyrics in his " Books of Airs" (1601 to about 1617).
The Sonnet is a 14 line poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm. Elizabethan poets wrote two types of sonnets.
- Italian Sonnet
- English Sonnet
The two types differed in the arrangement of the rhymes. Sir Thomas Wyatt introduced the Sonnet from Italy into English literature in the early 1500's. The Earl of Surrey modified the form into the English Sonnet.
William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser also wrote sonnet sequences. A Sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets based on a singal theme or about one person. Notable sequences Shakespeare's notable sequence is based on an unknown "dark lady".
5). Discuss ' Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud' with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed.
According to Wordsworth, " Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" .
After Dryden Wordsworth offers this definition.
The Poem :- " Deffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Summary in short :-
- The poet was wandering lonely over the valleys and the hills when suddenly he came across a lot of daffodil flowers beside a lake.
- The poet was overjoyed at the lovely sight of the flowers which seemed to be “tossing their heads” and “dancing” in the mild breeze. Charmed the the daffodils, he gazed at them for long.
- Later in his life, when in vacant or pensive mood, the poet felt pleasure with the memory of those flowers flashing upon his “inward eye”.
This poem has four stanza and each has six lines. This poem is written by a Romantic writer William Wordsworth in 1804.
The first three stanzas are in past tence , and the final stanza is in Present tence.
In this poem ,poem recollected his nature walk. This poem is a very good axarcise of language and grammar.
Here ,in this poem " I " is very subjective.
This poem is all about recollection in tranquility ,at the end , tranquility gradually disappears.
Tone of the poem :- This is a small poem ,walks out in the definition of Wordsworth's preface.
Word count :- 1550
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