ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Elegiac Stanzas is a poem by William Wordsworth, originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Its full title is “Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont."

Detailed explanation-2: -elegiac stanza, in poetry, a quatrain in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming. Though the older and more general term for this is heroic stanza, the form became associated specifically with elegiac poetry when Thomas Gray used it to perfection in “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” (1751).

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth’s late poem “Elegiac Stanzas” revolves around a number of ideas like– the nature of perception, the theme of substitution, and his preoccupation with joy and pleasure. Wordsworth begins the poem by noting how different his own memory of the castle was from that of Beaumont’s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first version of the poem was written between 3–9 May 1802 under the title of “The Leech-Gatherer", but Wordsworth considerably revised the poem during the following months after it was reviewed by his fiancée, Mary Hutchinson, and her sister Sara.

Detailed explanation-5: -Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth | Poetry Foundation.