• Come cerco una versione di latino?
• Come richiedo una versione di latino?
• Come richiedo una versione di greco?
• Come effettuo una ricerca sul sito?
• Altre richieste di informazioni

He was born in a small village where he spent his childhood in close contact with nature. After his degree, he left for France, where, attracted by new democratic ideas, he became a fervent supporter of the French Revolution. For lack of money, he compelled to go back to England. He settled in Dorset with his sister Dorothy, who helped him to recover from his sense of failure, remorse and disillusionment following his French experience. In 1975 he met Coleridge and they shared the same love for nature and produced a collection of poems called "Lyrical Ballads". The second edition of 1800 also contained Wordsworth's famous "Preface" which was to become the "Manifesto of English Romanticism. He died in 1850.

Works

His poetic production can be divided into two groups: Longer Poems: The Prelude is an autobiographical poem in 14 books, published only in 1850; The Excursion, which is a poem in 9 books, which was only a part of a poem "on man, on nature, and on human life", planned by Wordsworth under the life of the Recluse, but never completed. Miscellaneaus Poems: some of the miscellaneaus poems were included in the Lyrical Ballads, a collection planned and written together with Coleridge.

Daffodils

In this poem, the poet went for a walk with his sister Dorothy, near their home in the Lake District.

First Stanza: the poet is in a state of loneliness. He was the daffodils, but  Wordsworth doesn't give a detailed description of these daffodils, but places them in relationship to the lake and the trees.

Second Stanza: the poet compares the daffodils to the stars to underline that they are part of a universal order. He uses the personification to show the joy of " dancing flowers" and the "shining stars".

Third Stanza: the poet compares the daffodils to the waves on the lake, which also dance. The poet is happy because his mind is active. Wordsworth speaks of a "poet", a man who has a greater sensibility, only such a man can find himself in a state of creative joy when placed in such a situation. The experience of the poet isn't limited to the immediate pleasure, but it's only afterwords, in recollection, that the act is understood and described.

Fourth Stanza: in the last stanza is described the poet's capability to recall the events at future time. The "solitude is very different from the loneliness. This is a condition of joy, the same he flet when he observed the daffodils dancing in the breeze.

Wordsworth and Coleridge

They despise "Fancy" and exalt "imagination" but while Wordsworth modifies and transforms the experience (with the recollection in tranquillity), for Coleridge imagination trascends the experience and creates in the true sense of the word.