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If this occasion which Wordsworth describes seems at first a little slight, he offers what is tantamount to a defence of his enthusiasm in the following stanza, where the daffodils are The teacher covers “Daffodils” in depth and how it relates to the overarching themes of the Romantic Period, and then students are given the below Wordsworth poem for the first time on the test and asked to analyze how it reflects the Romantic Period themes (or dichotomies). Those of us who love Wordsworth’s poetry, then (and he does have his detractors, though these people I do not understand), love the man himself. So great and impressive is his soul, one almost feels he lives today with us; he is imprinted upon his surroundings; in recording them, he (in a sense) makes them for us. And he is not so much a distant, admired figure as he is a dear friend to those who love to read him and hear the music of his lines. The turn (or volta) of this sonnet, however, into its closing sestet, moves the verse from the didactic to the Classical Wordsworth—a significant aspect of the poet too rarely seen and appreciated:
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Some of the best poetry quotes are works of poetry themselves: They keep it short and use a small number of words to communicate big ideas. Take a look at how poets use their poetic skills even when they’re not writing poetry: The following stanzas elaborate further on the argument. There are some lovely lines in these sections. Thereafter, stanzas ten and eleven bring us to the conclusion with the pleasant crashes of the end of a symphony: This is a somewhat overlooked poem which appears early in the second volume of the 1800 Lyrical Ballads. It deserves much more attention since it is perhaps Wordsworth’s most successful and mature fable. It relates what Wordsworth himself calls in a headnote to the poem ‘a remarkable Chase’ (that is, a hunt) which gives the well its name. Appropriately, the poem begins in storm and tempest, but also, surprisingly, stillness: On the flip side, sometimes you need a lot of words to communicate your message. These poetry quotes are longer, meatier, and can feel like poems themselves: So, on to the rundown of his eight greatest poems, eight being the least great, one being the finest:The text of this sermon, in English, is found in Martin Niemöller, First Commandment, London, 1937, pp. 243–250. If anything in Wordsworth rings true and timely to us today, it is that common concern in him and us for the destruction of nature by humanity, what Wordsworth himself calls elsewhere ‘the vulgar works of man’. This is the most beautiful and rigorous expression of that concern which I know. The poem then concludes on another note of exhortation, which resounds in the reader’s mind long, long, after the poem ceases to be read: W. J. T. Mitchell trenchantly observed that "We tend to think that to compare poetry with painting is to make a metaphor, while to differentiate poetry from painting is to state a literal truth." [6] Although this opening exhortation is hardly stirring, it sets perfectly the message and the rhythm of the poem. Then comes the real, substantial argument: In ‘Your Feet’, Neruda expresses a similar devotion to his love as he explains his love for her from head to toe, and gives thanks for the forces he feels brought them together inevitably. 44. "Dear One Absent This Long While" by Lisa Olstein I expect you. I thought one night it was you at the base of the drive, you at the foot of the stairs
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In 1936, however, he decidedly opposed the Nazis' " Aryan Paragraph". Niemöller signed the petition of a group of Protestant churchmen which sharply criticized Nazi policies and declared the Aryan Paragraph incompatible with the Christian virtue of charity. The Nazi regime reacted with mass arrests and charges against almost 800 pastors and ecclesiastical lawyers. [8] A wise passiveness—few poets writing in English can or have matched so much beauty, calm, and simplicity in three words, and moreover in such a short line. This is Wordsworth at his simplest, and perhaps at his intellectual best. The stanza is somewhat weakened by the Wordsworthian clichés, however, of Powers which impress the mind. (To my knowledge, Wordsworth never said clearly what these are and this, as a substantial point, required a systematic prose or philosophical treatment, not verse, if they were ever to be taken seriously.) But the poem is nevertheless great, and deeply affecting—emotionally, and intellectually.
Marcuse, Harold; Niemöller, Martin. "Of Guilt and Hope". University of California at Santa Barbara.
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Wordsworth’s corpus is vast, and made doubly vast again by the fact that he substantially revised most of what he wrote at some point in his life. Though many editors prefer Wordsworth’s earliest versions, thinking them ‘better’ (hardly a rigorous criterion for such an important decision!), I go with Wordsworth’s own opinion, which he expressed in a letter to the scholar and editor Alexander Dyce, ‘you know what importance I attach to following strictly the last Copy of the text of an Author’ (19 April 1830). Wordsworth re-wrote and, more importantly, re-thought throughout his life. Of course we need every version he ever made to be on record. But, for reading, I would err towards his latest version first. Taken with these, we are then free to explore the earlier versions if it pleases us to do so. I praise and love all men who do no sin willingly; but with necessity even the gods do not contend. About: “Here you'll find many types of poems on a variety of topics written by poets from all over the world. You'll find poetry that can teach you new things, make you feel, and make you think. Don't see your favorite type of poem? Give it a search or make it on Commaful and get it featured!”
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Around 1798–9, Coleridge began bothering Wordsworth about writing a long philosophical poem. This was to be called ‘The Recluse’. Sadly, it was never produced, but two other book-length poems were: ‘The Prelude’, published in 1850 by Wordsworth’s widow a few months after his death (the title is hers), and ‘The Excursion’, which was published in Wordsworth’s lifetime and was often considered, as the scholar Bushell notes in Re-Reading The Excursion, to be Wordsworth’s greatest poem during his lifetime. (It was appreciated by the late Victorians as equal in worth with the famous Prelude; but today it has dwindled to the point of hardly being read at all. However, Book I of the poem, first written in 1797–8 (often considered Wordsworth’s finest years) as an independent poem, The Ruined Cottage, is still read by ardent Wordsworthians.) A colleague of a colleague apparently once wittily remarked that Wordsworth couldn’t write ‘The Recluse’, but could write a Prelude to it and an Excursion from it. Wordsworth always returned to the sonnet. It seems to him to have been an ideal form of expression. Whereas Ben Jonson thought the form misshaped strains of thought, making them longer or shorter than best suited them—and compared them therefore to the Bed of Procrustes—the form was to Wordsworth just large enough to elaborate, without allowing him to become prosaic, as he could often be in his longer, conversational verse, and forcing him to make his points with grace and concision. He took this well-worn love poetry form and used it for truly inventive and original ends. The Wordsworthian sonnet is a thing unto itself. There are many famous poems that could have been included in this list— ‘Scorn not the Sonnet’, ‘ Upon Westminster Bridge‘—as well as not so famous but beautiful works such as the Ecclesiastical Sonnets (much to be recommended), the many other ‘Miscellaneous Sonnets’, or the sonnet sequence, ‘The River Duddon’ (even more beautiful than the Ecclesiastical Sonnets): but this present poem, in warning us not to indulge too much our consuming impulses, perhaps speaks the most sharply to us today, and retains a beauty that, to my mind, will never cease to refresh a tired soul: Another entry from milk and honey, this short, untitled poem takes a bittersweet and world weary, but ultimately generous look at love and its challenges. 37. "Poem To An Unnameable Man" by Dorothea Lasky And I will not cry also About: “We strive to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere, and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love. We work to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear
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About: “Crazyhorse aims to publish work that reflects the multiple poetries of the twenty-first century. While our taste represents a wide range of aesthetics, from poets at all stages of their writing careers, we read with a discerning eye for poems that demonstrate a rhetorical and formal intelligence—that is, poems that know why they are written in the manner that they are.”A powerful criticism, we can all agree. There is so much to read; even with a thousand lifetimes you could not do it. Why don’t we all simply devote every moment to reading the myriad richnesses hidden in almost any book lying beside us? Wordsworth has an answer. He says to ‘Matthew’: The persecution of the Jews, the way we treated the occupied countries, or the things in Greece, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia or in Holland, that were written in the newspapers.... I believe, we Confessing-Church-Christians have every reason to say: mea culpa, mea culpa! We can talk ourselves out of it with the excuse that it would have cost me my head if I had spoken out.
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