Humanism in the poetry of, William Wordsworth
Keywords:
Humanity, Divinity, MankindAbstract
Wordsworth is a well-known poet of mankind. He is very close and loving penetration into the realistic and simplicities of human life that relates him as a love of nature to honour man. This love leads him to the love of man. He always chose his character for his poems as peasants, innocent farmers, artless shepherds, and lonely reapers and highlands girls. Therefore, some of the critics and intellectuals consider his poetry as man in relation to nature and man in relation to nature and man in relation to human society. He had never thought of to escape from common man. He accepted them and their grief. The stories told by him in his poetry are related to some aspects of human life. The main theme of his poems is related to incidents in human life, the working of love to sooth the deepest wounds of humanity. Blake calls him a great poet of humanity. Wordsworth accepts the fact that suffering teaches us humility and patience in life and man starts to love the mankind.
References
Arthur Symons, The Romantic Movements in English Poetry,(New York: Phaetoness, 1960), p.92.
William Wordsworth, The Prelude Book I, William Wordsworth Selected Poetry, (ed.) Stephen Gill (New York: O.U.P, 1994), pp. 362-367.
William Wordsworth “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”, pp. 183-185.
The Prelude Book XIII.
William Wordsworth, “The Recluse”, William Wordsworth Selected Poems, (ed.), Walford Davis (London: Dent. 1975) p.70
William Wordsworth, “Laodamia”, William Wordsworth Selected Poems, (ed.) Walford Davis (London: Dent. 1975) pp.73-75.
William Wordsworth, “Eligiac stanza suggested by a picture of peel castle in a storm”, William Wordsworth Selected Poems, (ed.) Walford Davis, (London: Dent, 1975). p. 71
The Prelude “Love of nature leading to love of man”.
