ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The poet, belonging to the earliest of the Romantics, loves the nature.
A
False
B
True
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Essentially, the Romantics thought that Nature (and they did often capitalize it, with a pantheistic reverence akin to Native Americans) was profoundly beneficial for mankind; that being in nature could have powerful physical, moral, educative effects on a person.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars say that the Romantic Period began with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was one of the first collections of poems that strayed from the more formal poetic diction of the Neoclassical Period.

Detailed explanation-3: -For the Romantics, Nature was transfigured into a living force and held together as a unity by the breath of the divine spirit. It was infused with a comprehensive symbolism resting on its profound moral and emotional connection with human subjectivity. Coleridge referred to nature as the “language of God.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Romantic poets cultivated individualism, reverence for the natural world, idealism, physical and emotional passion, and an interest in the mystic and supernatural.

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