Wordsworth.ppt

1、,William Wordsworth,The Romantic writers emphasized emotions compared with the classic writers who emphasized reason. Romanticism began with the publication of Wordsworths Lyrical Ballads(抒情歌谣集) and ended with Walter Scotts death.,Life experience,The second of five children born to John Wordsworth a

2、nd Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth in Cumberland part of the scenic region in north-west England, the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year.,The Lake District, also k

3、nown as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes and its mountains (or fells), and its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth and the Lake Poets.,Wordsworth, Dorothy, and Coleri

4、dge traveled to Germany in the autumn of 1798. During the harsh winter of 17981799, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and despite extreme stress and loneliness, he began work on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude. He also wrote a number of famous poems, including the Lucy poem

5、s.,He and his sister moved back to England, now to Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District, and this time with fellow poet Robert Southey nearby. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey came to be known as the “Lake Poets” Through this period, many of his poems revolve around themes of death, endur

6、ance, separation, and grief.,The Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery,Wordsworth received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham University, and the same honour from Oxford University the next year.7 In 1842 the government awarded him a civil list pension amounting to 300 a year. Wi

7、th the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him you shall have nothing required of you (he became the only laureate to write no official poetry). When his dau

8、ghter, Dora, died in 1847, his production of poetry came to a standstill.,Death,William Wordsworth died by re-aggravating a case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, and was buried at St. Oswalds church in Grasmere. His widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical poem to Coleridge as The Prelude seve

9、ral months after his death. Though this failed to arouse great interest in 1850, it has since come to be recognised as his masterpiece,Gravestone of William Wordsworth, Grasmere, Cumbria,Major works,“poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotions recollect

10、ed in tranquility.” Wordsworth,I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.,Contin

11、uous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.,The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, I

12、n such a jocund company: I gazed-and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought,For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.,Thi

13、s poem was written in reflection after two years of the time when Wordsworth saw a land of daffodils by the lake of Ullwater upon his return from a visit to his friend Clarkson in Eusemere. The poet described his heartfelt happiness as he saw the beautiful daffodils and sang high praises of nature.,

14、The Solitary Reaper,The Solitary Reaper,Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.,No Nightin

15、gale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling neer was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.,Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaint

16、ive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?,Whateer the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her wor

17、k, And oer the sickle bending; I listend, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.,Wordsworth used solitary character to show how to be one with nature, whats more, the girl is compared to nightingales and cuckoo birds in a p

18、ositive light, as though she is one of them, which shows her natural side. The “vale profound/ Is overflowing with the sound,” and this also shows that she and nature are sympathetic to each other.,The poem functions to praise the beauty of music and its fluid expressive beauty, the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” that Words