ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Theme:Giving up nature for materialistic things and how it has changed people.
A
true
B
false
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth repeatedly emphasizes the importance of nature to an individual’s intellectual and spiritual development. A good relationship with nature helps individuals connect to both the spiritual and the social worlds. As Wordsworth explains in The Prelude, a love of nature can lead to a love of humankind.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main theme of The Prelude by Wordsworth is that society is disappointing, but nature presents the solutions to the problems caused by society.

Detailed explanation-3: -"The World Is Too Much with Us” is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).

Detailed explanation-4: -In ‘Tintern Abbey’ the poet says that Nature is: “ The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart and soul Of all my moral beings". Wordsworth identifies himself with a special message of Nature’s relation to man and of man to Nature. He creates a gospel of Nature and Man.

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