Week Three
CRITICAL COMMENTS
So I'm thinking I’m a little confused at this stage about which tutorials coincide with which weekly lecture so, seeing as I usually ignore the pieces of work which don’t particularly stand out to me anyways, I’ll just choose the poems that I want to talk about, so sorry if there not in the right weekly heading.
This weeks lecture about Romanticism was actually the most interesting thus far as we discussed pieces of literature that really appealed to my own sense of imagination and creativity. Wordsworth’s idea that “the child is father to the man” really stood out to me. That’s one of the things that I love about the romantic period, the social comments made by a generation of people, so spiritually enlightened and intensely artistic, really seem to catch my imagination and provoke thoughts about life, values and society. I wouldn’t have one day sat, and set time aside to appreciate some particular aspect of nature and put it in words that could echo throughout the ages, “The child is father to the man”, or perhaps like Wordsworth Lonely as a Cloud, sat an consciously decided to relive some acutely rich experience. I feel that I can relate to Wordsworth at this moment so intensely and that I understand exactly what he was thinking and how he saw things but I just wouldn’t have the vocabulary to describe it so poetically.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Williams Wordsworth was a particularly outstanding poem as it really inspired my imagination. His style of poetry is relatively rhythmical which I think adds a child like element, which can appeal to anyone’s sense of purity and wonder. The subjectivity of the poem reveals much about Wordsworth as a literary reflection of the primacy of the era and the individual. It was an amazing poem and I really loved it.
Can’t wait to continue the topic next week.
Ciao
=)
So I'm thinking I’m a little confused at this stage about which tutorials coincide with which weekly lecture so, seeing as I usually ignore the pieces of work which don’t particularly stand out to me anyways, I’ll just choose the poems that I want to talk about, so sorry if there not in the right weekly heading.
This weeks lecture about Romanticism was actually the most interesting thus far as we discussed pieces of literature that really appealed to my own sense of imagination and creativity. Wordsworth’s idea that “the child is father to the man” really stood out to me. That’s one of the things that I love about the romantic period, the social comments made by a generation of people, so spiritually enlightened and intensely artistic, really seem to catch my imagination and provoke thoughts about life, values and society. I wouldn’t have one day sat, and set time aside to appreciate some particular aspect of nature and put it in words that could echo throughout the ages, “The child is father to the man”, or perhaps like Wordsworth Lonely as a Cloud, sat an consciously decided to relive some acutely rich experience. I feel that I can relate to Wordsworth at this moment so intensely and that I understand exactly what he was thinking and how he saw things but I just wouldn’t have the vocabulary to describe it so poetically.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Williams Wordsworth was a particularly outstanding poem as it really inspired my imagination. His style of poetry is relatively rhythmical which I think adds a child like element, which can appeal to anyone’s sense of purity and wonder. The subjectivity of the poem reveals much about Wordsworth as a literary reflection of the primacy of the era and the individual. It was an amazing poem and I really loved it.
Can’t wait to continue the topic next week.
Ciao
=)