LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Question
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“Lyrical Ballads”
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“The Prelude”
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“We Are Seven”
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“Lines Written in Early Spring”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Prelude, in full The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind, autobiographical epic poem in blank verse by William Wordsworth, published posthumously in 1850. Originally planned as an introduction to another work, the poem is organized into 14 sections, or books.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times.
Detailed explanation-3: -An epic deals with actions, events and incidents, usually heroic or mythical. But “The Prelude” is not directly concerned with outward events, though they play their part. Its action takes place not in the outside world but in the poet’s mind. In fact, it is a modern epic.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Prelude is unparallelled in its detailed portrayal of the writer’s sense of his self and his mind. It traces the history of Wordsworth’s life from his earliest childhood to the point at which he began writing the poem at the age of about thirty, and records his flaws, his fears, his loves, and his ambitions.