Wordsworth

[love_leah]

This week, we focused on the poetry of nature. There were three aspects of these poems that were evident and truely important: 1) the nature that these poets (the Romantics) focused on was actually REAL nature, not an alagory or a metaphor like they were in the middle ages. Coleridge and Wordsworth, two of the Romantics who wrote together, and

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Romantics

[htorrens]

I think i'm a semi-romantic. I love literature from the romantic era, well, same with a lot of other eras, i just love literature in general! I am not a romantic in the sense that community is so important to me, i love the family (whether i get along with mine is another story, but my plans for my future family will be for community not individualism). At the same time though, i like to be independent..... a little contradictory, i know! I think this is partially because i was raised in the Philippines and attended an American school, as both societies are very family-oriented

A light motif

[x_tina25]

In “My heart leaps up” (as well as many other of Wordsworth’s poems) I find many similarities in that most are intertwined with the theme of nature, but that’s obvious. With this poem though it may be special because he not only celebrates nature’s beauty but also man’s ability to see all God’s manifestations, for perhaps if he can see the Godliness in God’s creation (“natural piety”), like the rainbow then maybe his vision is Christ-like. He is proclaiming his adoration of nature (rainbow) for if he cannot see it when he grows old, as he had as a young child and now as a man, then “let me die!” I would go on to say what the rainbow represents (some would say Wordsworth is reminding us of the rainbow as a symbol of protection and thus a sign of the covenant between Us and the earth) but I think that would be taking it too far and not what Wordsworth was intending