Thinking Activity Romentic Poet

Romantic poet : 

William Wordsworth

Born:17 April 1770

Died:23 April 1850

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere,

Bold in maternal Nature's care,

And all the long year through the heir

Of joy or sorrow;

Methinks that there abides in thee

Some concord with humanity,

Given to no other flower I see

The forest thorough!

Is it that Man is soon deprest?

A thoughtless Thing! who, once unblest,

Does little on his memory rest,

Or on his reason,

And Thou would'st teach him how to find

A shelter under every wind,

A hope for times that are unkind

And every season?

Thou wander'st the wide world about,

Uncheck'd by pride or scrupulous doubt,

With friend to greet thee, or without,

Yet pleased and willing;

Meek, yielding to the occasion's call,

And all things suffering from all,

Thy function apostolical

In peace fulfilling.

In the poem  “To the Daisy (‘With Little Here’) Wordsworth is discussing the greater significance the daisy is to man kind then the material world could ever be. Throughout the poem he is referring to objects and events that people get caught up in in the new and exciting commercial world of the 1800’s.  When referring to these things he is making the clear distinction that the peace of mind and soul the daisy in itself brings has a greater impact on man then the commercial world ever could.

The first stanza introduces Wordsworth’s reflection of the world as referring to it as “With little here to do or see/ Of things that in the great world be, / Sweet Daisy!” The here Wordsworth is referring to in these lines in the commercial world. These lines show that Wordsworth is one of few that is not caught up in the hustle and bustle of the day-to-day world but instead actually rejects it. Wordsworth does not find the industrial world to be nears as “worthy” as the daisy. Where Wordsworth find a place of love is in “Thou unassuming Common-place/ Of Nature, with that homely face.” Wordsworth recognizes he is more often then not by himself in this feeling that nature brings more of a sense of comfort and peace then the industrial world the majority is infatuated with.

Wordsworth reflects in stanza two that he often finds him self at peace with his mind while being exposed to nature, stating, “Oft do I sit by the at ease, / And weave a web of similes.” Wordsworth finds ease and tranquility in embracing this daisy’s beauty. He favors being in the presence of the daisy, he feels as though his mind is at a place where he can make comparisons and play on words about the real world. In the presence of the daisy his mind is free to wonder in “humor or in blame.”  Meaning that while he is submerged in the daisy beauty he can enjoy the game his mind plays, contemplate the daisy beauty in comparisons to other objects of beauty or shame in the world.

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