Poem of the Day (November 4)

[Anonymous No.21211412]

What are your thoughts on this poem, /lit/?

The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth

Yesterday's poem >>21208074

[Anonymous No.21211413]

>William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. He is remembered as a poet of spiritual and epistemological speculation, a poet concerned with the human relationship to nature and a fierce advocate of using the vocabulary and speech patterns of common people in poetry. The son of John and Ann Cookson Wordsworth, William Wordworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, located in the Lake District of England: an area that would become closely associated with Wordsworth for over two centuries after his death. He began writing poetry as a young boy in grammar school, and before graduating from college he went on a walking tour of Europe, which deepened his love for nature and his sympathy for the common man: both major themes in his poetry. Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”

[Anonymouṡ No.21211550]

>>21211412
It's good. (I wonder if K. had it in mind when he wrote Ode to a Nightingale?)

Best lines:
Will no-one tell me what she sings? —
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago

Also interesting how it ends with the same sentiment as Daffodils. Wordsworth is really like a giant monster amoeba, wandering around the countryside assimilating stuff. Anything nice he sees or hears, he grabs it and tucks it away for future enjoyment. Quite right too. MINDS FURNISHED WITH BEAUTY, as Peter H. said on Question Time.

[Anonymous No.21211581]

>>21211412
I think most poetry is pretty gay but I like that one.

[Anonymous No.21212513]

>>21211412
It's okay.

[Anonymous No.21212723]

bump

[Anonymous No.21213155]

>>21211581
Fascinating, since Wordsworth is easily the gayest faggot to ever write "poetry". You have no taste at all and are probably one of the worst people alive on several counts.

[Anonymous No.21213164]

>Fascinating, since Wordsworth is easily the gayest faggot to ever write "poetry". You have no taste at all and are probably one of the worst people alive on several counts.

[Anonymous No.21213170]

>>21213155
You are unironically never going to make it if you don't like Wordsworth.

[Anonymous No.21213254]

>>21213170
I'm sure Byron would have been alarmed to hear that. Oh well, somehow the opinions of talentless nobodies rarely hold water.

[Anonymous No.21213504]

>>21213170
This

[Anonymous No.21213652]

>>21213164
>>21213504
Wordsworth has his qualities, it goes without saying. Nobody becomes a name in the canon otherwise. He had good turns of phrase ("The world is too much with us" is a genius poem for instance). But he was mostly a product of his time. He was an extremely safe, dry, milquetoast poet with pretensions to philosophy, which was actually just infantile Rousseauism--very in vogue at the time. And while he was the first poet to so prioritize introspection, he was too full of himself to do it artistically and instead just tended to ramble (see picrel for a good laugh on that point).
In short, he obviously had some facility as a poet, but he was elevated to the degree that he was mostly for his very safe and very popular sensibilities ("I heckin love Nature!! I heckin love the good in people!! If we only we got back to Nature then we would all be heckin good!!") which are now very outdated. So to idolize him these days indicates a lack of philosophical and poetic education, or just plain bad taste.

[Anonymous No.21213661]

>>21213170
>>21213504
Wordsworth has his qualities, it goes without saying. Nobody becomes a name in the canon otherwise. He had good turns of phrase ("The world is too much with us" is a genius poem for instance). But he was mostly a product of his time. He was an extremely safe, dry, milquetoast poet with pretensions to philosophy, which was actually just infantile Rousseauism--very in vogue at the time. And while he was the first poet to so prioritize introspection, he was too full of himself to do it artistically and instead just tended to ramble (see picrel for a good laugh on that point).
In short, he obviously had some facility as a poet, but he was elevated to the degree that he was mostly for his very safe and very popular sensibilities ("I heckin love Nature!! I heckin love the good in people!! If we only we got back to Nature then we would all be heckin good!!") which are now very outdated. So to idolize him these days indicates a lack of philosophical and poetic education, or just plain bad taste.

[Anonymous No.21213856]

>>21213661
>judges poets by their philosophy