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Lake District England (Williams birth place) Map from google padlet

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Portrait of William Wordsworth drawn by R.C. Roffe

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Image of William Wordsworth's home, Rydal Mount, in England's Lake District.

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One of Wordsorth's many books full of poerty.

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"Wordsworth’s poetry praises the value of the simple individual, the child, the helpless, the working class, and the natural man. Such sentiments were explosive in the age of the French Revolution, when Wordsworth was young. He helped to define the attitudes that fostered the spread of democracy, of more humane treatment of the downtrodden, and of respect for nature" (Bender).

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"As one of the first and probably the greatest of the English Romantic poets, Wordsworth redirected the literary trends of the time. His most important poems present a vision of the expanded human mind in creative interplay with the external world" (Aubrey).

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The majority of Wordsworth's most renound works were written between 1788-1807. Some of these works include Lyrical Ballads, Poems, in Two Volumes, and The Recluse. The Recluse is a large project that includes a famous autobiography representing his highest poetic abilities, namely The Prelude. Furthermore, The Excursion is another part of the project that is writen from a conversational persective (Laben).

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Wordsworth, as a pioneer in English Romantic poetry (Laben), is focused on simplicity. He writes about simple topics using ordinary people in order to get to the root of the true human experience. He believes that the common people are closer to nature than the the typically more highly regarded men who he thinks have been corrupted by society (Bender).

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Unlike other poets at the time, William Wordsworth took a new idea into poetry: everyday life. He wrote with simple words and nonliterary language which was extremely unheard of at the time. He also liked to challenge wisdom in his works (Aubrey).

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William left significance in the poetry world in many different ways. First is the romantic age where William used a lot of imagination, and encouraged others to do the same. Additionally is his use of emotions and feelings. He helped to make the use of emotions in writing become much more legitimate within poetry (Aubrey).

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Sources for Wordsworth - McKnight Okeefe

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Image of the school that Wordsworth attended

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“I'VE watched you now a full half-hour,

Self-poised upon that yellow flower;

And, little Butterfly! indeed

I know not if you sleep or feed.

How motionless!---not frozen seas

More motionless! and then

What joy awaits you, when the breeze

Hath found you out among the trees,

And calls you forth again !

This plot of orchard-ground is ours;

My trees they are, my Sister's flowers;

Here rest your wing when they are weary;

Here lodge as in a sanctuary!

Come often to us, fear no wrong;

Sit near us on the bough!

We'll talk of sunshine and of song,

And summer days, when we were young;

Sweet childish days, that were as long

As twenty days are now.” (Wordsworth, “To A Butterfly”)

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I Wandered lonely as a Cloud

That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden Daffodils;

Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in the never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:–

A Poet could not but be gay

In such a jocund company:

I gazed–and gazed–but little thought

What wealth the shew to me had brought:

For oft when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude,

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the Daffodils

(Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”).

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Written With A Pencil Upon A Stone In The Wall Of The House, On The Island At Grasmere

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

My Heart Leaps Up