ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
For Wordsworth the embodiment of divine spirit was?
A
Nature
B
Love
C
God
D
Beauty
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Q55. The embodiment of divine spirit, for William Wordsworth was: Pastoral life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Representation of Nature in Wordsworth’s poetry He views Nature as a source of love, perpetual joy, soothing and healing power, knowledge and spirituality. Nature and God become one for him. He believes that Nature is the Universal Spirit guiding anyone who like to be guided by her.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth uses personificationto describe nature. He opens the poem with reference to being “(led by her)” which shapes how the reader views the whole poem. His reference to nature as “her” or “she” is an allusionto the idea of Mother Nature, a common theme across mythology.

Detailed explanation-4: -It’s a pantheistic view: he thinks that in nature there are a lot of values which are the guide to the spiritual and moral life of men. Nature means also the world of sense perceptions. He was influenced by the philosopher Hartley, he thought that our ideas aren’t inborn in our mind, but we get them by the world.

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