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“All good poetry is the aie overflow of powerful feelings.”
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“Poetry is spontaneous overflow of emotions recollected in tranquility.”
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The most gublime period of English literature where poetry reached its
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Romanticigm hag very Cittle to do with things popularly thought of
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Romantic art. Rather, it is an internationaé artistic and philosophical
movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in
Western cultures thought about themselves and about their wored.
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Imagination
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Nature and Its Glory/Returned to Nature
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Glorification of common place
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imagination ag our ultimate "shaping" or creative power,
the approximate human equivalent of the creative powers
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the primary faculty for creating ale art. On a broader
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constitute reality, for (as Wordsworth suggested), we not
only perceive the world around us, Gut also in part create
a“Feelings and Emotions’
Romantics mainly believed in human feelings
and emotions. Wordsworth emphasized on human
connection with nature with its peculiarities,
Coleridge worked on the
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landmark was emotional contacts of Auman
with its naturale origin, Keats selected human
psychology as his subject and Byron was a rebel
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beauty but as a manifestation of spirit in the
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healing power and according to Wordsworth
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Wordsworth
was the senior most of all the Romantics and
was also “the high priest of nature.”
William Wordsworth was Gorn on 7 Aprié 1770
and died in 1778.Nature for him was everything
with its healing power.
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“Come forth into the light of things,
let Nature be your Teacher."
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mention of nature. Nature and its connection to humanity
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according to Wordsworth, is to Ge true to his own
impulses and desires, Gut not greedy. A person
should Ge available to help his fellow man, but
should uot Ge consumed by other peoples’ uceds.
He should be in communion with nature, with
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The poet orders his listener to behold a “solitary Highland lass”
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by should either stop here, or “gently pass” so as not to disturb her.
s she “cuts and binds the grain” she “singsa melancholy strain,”
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says that the sound is more welcome than any chant of the
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Impatient, the poet asks, “Will no one tell me what she sings?” He
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listened “motionless and still,” and as he traveled up the hill, he
carried her song with him in his heart long after he could no longer
hear it.
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Qi. How does nature come in the poem?
Q2.Wihat is the main theme of the poem?
Q3.Why do you think the poet has chosen the
song of nightingale and cuckoo for comparison
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UU ee Ee Sd“Better to understand a little
than to misunderstand a lot.”
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