Wordsworth-Dickinson

** William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson **Roy Huang, Jacky Ng, Vickie Zhao, Andrew Moore Red text indicates similarities.  ||  ·  Focuses on nature as an active participant  ·  Creates connection with religious beliefs and religious identities  ·  Contains political opinions in later poems  ·  **Romanticism ** (attempt to humanize nature, ponder on creator of nature)  ·  Major Topics: nature, love, political criticism  ||  ·  Explored own spirituality and soul <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explored ideas such as isolation and solitude <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Major Topics: death, separation, nature, identity || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Incorporates vivid imagination affected by the magnificent landscape around him <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Occasionally refers to religious ideas like God <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Usually speaks in first person <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Emphasizes feeling, instinct and pleasure  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Touching, deeply personal <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sometimes brooding, sometimes joyous and celebratory <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Relied heavily on literary devices to present ideas || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Systematic, conventional rhyming scheme and structure <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use of 14-line sonnet || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unconventional broken rhyming meter <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Choppy structure, created by hyphens and frequent enjambment <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Random capitalization <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Alternation between iambic tetra/trimester <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABCB rhyme schemes <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Seems random and choppy as a result of the use of hyphens and break in rhyming <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Uses meters of English hymns <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">English Romantic Movement  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Incorporates a variety of adjectives to present nature || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Compresses language by leaving out connection words <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creative use of metaphor <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Pure and concise imagery <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Peculiar use of vocabulary and imagery <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || Details ** || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lost his parents when he was young <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Had a beloved and neurotic sister Dorothy, a very important person to him <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Grew up in a rural society where he spent lots of time playing outdoors where he developed his love for nature <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Had an affair with a French girl Vallon and had a illegitimate daughter Caroline <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hid affair and illegitimate child <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Later abandoned his radical ideas and became a patriotic, conservative public man || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Refused to sign an oath publicly professing her faith in Christ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">19th century American poet <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Born into a successful family with strong community ties and lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Speculation on her sexual orientation and romantic feelings for editor Higginson || Period ** || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1770-1850 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">London, in Wordsworth point of view, was deteriorating culturally, politically, and religiously <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hailed the French revolution with admiration || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1830-1886 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lived through US Civil War ||
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