ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Wordsworth’s preface to lyrical ballads articulated ____ worldview
A
supernatural
B
romantic, philosophical and aesthetic
C
feminist
D
all of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the first part, William Wordsworth is known as the master of Romantic Poetry for his literary brilliance, depiction of emotions, personifying human life with nature, and propagation of a way of living that called everyone back to nature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth not only talked about nature, but also the sublime and imagination, which are also key themes in Romanticism. Both pieces of work expressed how nature can help calm people and take them away from society through being on top of a mountain away from humanity and helping make life peaceful during hard times.

Detailed explanation-3: -In romanticism, the “aesthetic”-most broadly that which concerns beauty and art-is not just one aspect of human life or one branch of the humanistic studies. Rather, if the romantic ideal is to materialize, aesthetics should permeate and shape human life.

Detailed explanation-4: -His primary epistemological thesis was that the ways in which we perceive the world, including ourselves, are determined by the ways in which we experience the world. Locke’s theory of the mind as a tabula rasa was an emblem of the mind in its natural state. Wordsworth’s ‘The Tables Turned’ is a didactic poem.

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