Who Was William Wordsworth?

1. "I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze." Presentation By Crystal Wood Who WasWilliamWordsworth?

2. William Wordsworth was born on April 17, 1770,  in Cockermouth in Cumberland His popularity as a poet draws thousands of tourists to this northwestern England city every year. Where It All Began

3. William was the second of five children. After his mother’s death in 1778, he was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School; this is where his love for poetry was first established. Five years later, his father died. The Wordsworth Household

4. In 1790, Wordsworth quit school at St. John’s in Cambridge to partake in a walking tour of Europe. This experience heightened Wordsworth's interest in the life, troubles and speech of the "common man,” which is another common theme in his works. Wordsworth & the “Common Man”

5. In 1793, Wordsworth’s first works, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches, were published but received little notice. “Where, bosom'd deep, the shy Winander peepsMid' clust'ring isles, and holly-sprinkl'd steeps;Where twilight glens endear my Esthwaite's shore,And memory of departed pleasures, more.” From An Evening Walk Early Works

6. Mr. and Mrs. Wordsworth In 1802, Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson in the Brompton Church. She was the inspiration for his poem, “She Was A Phantom of Delight.” “She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair;”

7. It was Wordsworth's emotional power, rather than his range of intellect, that made him famous and influential. He defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion recollected in tranquility." To him, poetry was an overflowing of emotion onto paper backed up by the refusal to conform to the “rules” of society. This belief, along with his inspirations, allowed his talent and emotions to run free. Conclusion

8. He died on April 23, 1850, and is buried at St Oswald's Church in Grasmere.

9. TO A BUTTERFLYSTAY near me--do not take thy flight! • A little longer stay in sight! • Much converse do I find in thee, • Historian of my infancy! • Float near me; do not yet depart! • Dead times revive in thee: • Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! • A solemn image to my heart, • My father's family! • Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days, • The time, when, in our childish plays, • My sister Emmeline and I • Together chased the butterfly! • A very hunter did I rush • Upon the prey:--with leaps and springs • I followed on from brake to bush; • But she, God love her, feared to brush • The dust from off its wings.

10. These lines are taken from William Wordsworth's poem To a Butterfly which written in Victorian era . • There are many Victorian glimpses throughout the poem. First, there is a sense of intellectual depression , for example, " throughout the poem" . Second, there is a sense of Nostalgia, for example, " Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days,The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I, Together chased the butterfly" (10- 13). Third, there is a sense of imagination , for example, " STAY near me--do not take thy flight! " (1) and " Float near me; do not yet depart!" (5) . Forth, there is a use of symbolism in word " Butterfly" which represent his childhood.

11. This poem has many of figure of speech. First, there is a use of alternation, for example, " little- longer, stay- sight" (2). Second, there is a use of apostrophe, for example, " Float near me; do not yet depart! " (5). Third, there is a use of anaphora in " Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days," (10) . Forth, there is end-stooped line in " But she, God love her, feared to brush, The dust from its wings. " (18).