ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Wordsworth is more concerned with the relation between the ____ and the ____
A
Poet and poem
B
poet and reader
C
poem and nature
D
All 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: -In fact Wordsworth was interested in the changes of relationship with nature in the different moments of life. For Wordsworth childhood is the most important (in a poem he says “the Child is father to the Man") age in man’s life because of imagination and memory that are more vivid than in the adults.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth was brother to Dorothy, who adored Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was married to Sara, who was the sister-in-law of the future poet laureate Robert Southey. Together with a second Sara, with whom Coleridge was besotted, the Wordsworths established a fluid commune in the Lake District.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to a well defined definition of poetry by Wordsworth that “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful passion”. Internal feelings of the poet proceeds poetry.

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