The World is too much with us by Wadworth (1807)
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When was William Wadworth born?
1770
Where did William Wadsworth live?
Cumberland, Lake District, now Cumbria (a scenic spot)
William Wadsworth family
1 of 5 children, mother and father died early
Where did William Wadsworth go to school?
Hawkshead school: a fine education and indulgence in nature
St. John's College: competitive nature disillusioned William Wadsworth
What did William Wadsworth find solace in when he was in college?
In summer tours of Revolutionary France in 1790
Who were the Lake Poets and why were they grouped?
WW, Samuel Coleridge, Robert Downey.
They lived in the same place, they wrote about Lake District's lakes and nature
Who critiqued the Lake Poets and why?
Lord Byron, he believed their scope was too narrow and didn't include radical politics
What did WW focus on in his works?
Connection with nature and individual imagination and a revolt against social and political norms, which he observed detracted from treating people and nature ethically
What did WW use as subjects and why?
He hated class discrimination, he used commoners as subjects and wrote in a vernacular language
What other words of WW were mention3ed?
The Prelude, Michael
What did WW hate and criticize?
The Industrial Revolution, Trains in Lake District
Juxtaposition in The World is too much with us
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
Apostrophe in The World is too much with us
It moves us not. Great God!
Personification in The World is too much with us.
This Sea bares her bosom to the moon
The wind that will be howling at all hours
sleeping flowers
Allusions in the World is too much with us
Proteus and Triton
What does the juxtaposition in The Wolrd is too much with us characterize the poem as?
An elegy
What form is the World is too much with us?
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet: An octave and a sestet, iambic pentamenter
What format is Shakespearean sonnet
3 quatrains and a couple at the end.
How many sonnects did Shakespeare write?
Over 150
What did the French Revolution have an "enormous impact" on?
It had an enormous impact on Wordsworth's early work as well as the Romantic Period in general.