Olds-Wordsworth

Neville Wai, Jimmy Pang, John Lo, Angus Ning
 * || **William Wordsworth** || **Sharon Olds** ||
 * **Subject** || * Romanticism
 * Nature
 * Political Ideas and Beliefs
 * Religious Beliefs, Elements, and Identities || * Dark, unconventional, and violent subjects. Often times unnerving.
 * Relates to her own dark past and childhood. (example //The Father//)
 * Opts for the less-written subjects, or popular subjects but with different twist. e.g. divorce, desperation towards love in //I Go Back to may 1937// ||
 * **Style** || * Detailed Imagery
 * Refers to God
 * High level of seriousness shown through simple diction and structure
 * Often personifies nature and natural elements || * Straightforward, blunt
 * Dives straight into topic, not over elaborate - simple.
 * Unhesitant towards writing about her subjects
 * **Structure** || * Conventional and consistent rhyme schemes and structures (usually 4-line stanzas)
 * Often Italian sonnets || * Broken down style
 * One stanza
 * Strange sense of rhythm ||
 * **Movement** || * English Romantic Movement || * Modern? ||
 * **Language** || * Descriptive to describe and present nature
 * Use of simple diction
 * Heavy uses of metaphors
 * Expresses emotional attachment to nature || * Blunt and plain
 * Very violent and graphic
 * Employs colors to describe imagery and setting ||
 * Distinctive Features || * Often uses capitalization, metaphors, and strong imagery || * Heavy uses of sound devices (I, I, I, I): assonance (arrogant handsome), consonance (pitiful beautiful), alliteration (savoring the stinging sensation of the squeezing), onomatopoeia (crush, crush, crush)
 * Often repeats words, phrases, or lines ||
 * **Biographical Deatails** || * He lost his mother when he was 8 and his father when he was 13,separating him from his beloved neurotic sister, who was really important to him
 * Had an affair with a French girl called Annette Valon, and had an illegimate daughter named Anne Caroline
 * His poems had not gained similar critical approval because Wordsworth abandoned his racial ideas and they became more patriotic views. || * After graduating from Stanford Sharon Olds went to earn a Ph.D in English at Columbia University.
 * Vowed to writer her own poetry, no matter how bad it might be.
 * Allowed her to develop her own voice. ||
 * **Time Period** || * 1770-1850 || * 1942 - present ||
 * **Time Period** || * 1770-1850 || * 1942 - present ||