william wordsworth Flashcards
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who was william wordsworth?
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- one of the founders of romanticism
- concerned with human relationship to nature and a fierce advocate of using vocabulary and speech patterns of common people
- associated with the lake district - grew up here
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what is a lyrical ballad
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- lyrical poems express emotion and ballads tell a story, therefore meant to express an emotion and/or tell a story with a supernatural element
- coleridge and wordsworth wanted to establish a more rustic scene within simple form of ballads
- wanted to relate to the common people more so didn’t want their ballads to be like the augustan eras (complex form)
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what were poets doing when making lyrical ballads?
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- pushing back against neoclassical poetry of the augustan and romanticism era
- making emphasis on reason rather than emotion
- wanted to relate to the common people, the simple life and poor people
- unusual at the time - most poetry was about ancient heroes or the upper classes
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how were ballads perceived?
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- looked down upon
- seen to be derived from common people
5
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what is neoclassical poetry
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- based on roman and greek literature
- not on english folktales or ballads
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