hii every one in this presentation i have tried to prove my points with the help of some examples from his work...like Rainbow, Deffodills, Solitary Reaper etc..

1. S.B. Gardi Department of English
M.K. Bhavnagar University
Topic:- Simplicity of human life In Wordsworth’s
poems
Course name:- Romantic literature
Roll no. 14
Enrollment no. pg14101016
Email:- parmarmilan1994@gmail.com
Prepared by:- Milan Parmar

2. Introduction
Born:- 1770, Cockermouth,
Died:- 1850, Grasmere
He was one of the greatest poet
of nature England have ever
produced….
His most famous works are, Lyrical
Ballads, Preface to lyrical ballads,
Prelude, intimation of
immortality…

3. Human life and his Philosophy
His
doctrines
of human
life
Childhood
As
sensitive
Natural
instincts
and
pleasure
Truth of
Humanity
Nature and
his
philosophy

4. Childhood as sensitive
Child comes straight from the creator of nature..
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our creator
-Intimation of immortality

5. This kinship with Nature and with god, which
glorifies childhood and ennobles it when he
become man…
For Wordsworth society and crowded unnatural
life of cities tend to weaken and pervert
humanity and return to natural and simple living
is the only remedy for human wretchedness…

6. ‘Natural instincts and pleasure..’
Natural pleasures are permanent and it is the only
source to increase joy…in his poems “Tintern
Abbey,” “The Rainbow”, “Ode to Duty,”
“Intimations of Immortality,” and “Daffodils.”
“Rainbow”
My heart leaps up when I behold,
The rainbow in the sky,
As it was when I was child,
As it is now when I’m man….
The sight of rainbow has been pleasing the
speaker since when he was child, and it will be
until his death

7. “I wandered lonely as cloud”
For oft, when on my couch I lie
in Vacant and pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
which is the Bliss of solitude
And my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils..
The beauty of this flowers always gives him
pleasure and this shows permanence pleasure
in nature

8. Truth of Humanity
The common life which labors and loves and
share the general heritage of smiles and tears.
It is the only subject of permanent literary
interest….
His poems based on this themes are, “Michael,”
“solitary reaper,” “To Highland girl,” “Stepping
westward,” “the excursion…”.
Joys and sorrows not of king, prince and elites,
but common people and their simple life are the
basic themes of his poems…

9. Poetry on human relations and
emotions
“Michael”
“thou must not go, we have no other child,
But thee lose, none to remember,
Do not go away for if thou leave
Thy father, he will die…
Breaking of families because of industrialization
“Solitary reaper”
behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary highland lass;
Reaping and singing by herself….
..alone she cuts and binds the grain..
..and sings a melancholy strain….

10. Nature and his philosophy for man
Mystic elements
Nature as living god
Man is reflection of divine spirit
Nature as teaches us to look within our inner
spirit
Spiritual appeals of nature in “Tintern Abbey”
In nature and the language of the sense,
anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart,
and soul Of all my moral being.

11. conclusion
His poetry has too simplicity of nature and human
life and it often puzzle to reader.
Though his language and subjects are simple but
they are deeply philosophical.
We can say that he was a poet of simplicity of
both human life as well as nature.