THE POLITICAL POETRY OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A CRITICAL STUDY IN SELECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IN 1802 | ||
| Journal of Misan Researches | ||
| Article 1, Volume 9, Issue 17, June 2013, Pages 511-554 | ||
| Author | ||
| RAGHAD SHAKIR DEAIR AL-SUDANI | ||
| Abstract | ||
| It’s so easy to category writers, especially poets. Literature anthologies do it all of the time out of a need to limit the number of pages. In most anthologies, William Wordsworth who is been conveniently categorized as a Romantic poet broadly, and anature poet specifically. He’s trapped in the Lake District, and his seventy-five years of published poetry is summarized as poetry about nature and the feelings and emotions nature inspires. However, even two of Wordsworth‘s most anthologized sonnetsLondon, 1802 and Composed Upon Westminster Bridgewere published by Wordsworth in 1807 in his book Sonnets on National Independence and Liberty. The main objective of this study is to show that Wordsworth is not merely a nature poet but also a revolutionary poet who includes political point of view during that era in his poetry. This paper makes use of sonnets composed during August and September of 1802 that shows Wordsworth resents with Napoleon Bonaparte’s dictatorship. Wordsworth displays his disillusionment with the aftermath of the French Revolution.Wordsworth recognizes the naiveté and confusion of the early days of the Revolution in the context of Napoleon's developing power. These political sonnets reproach France as well as England, Wordsworth starts with a claim that his fellow men should be free from the restrains of the French nation which chained with the new monarchy of Napoleon since they are the ancestors of Shakespeare and Milton. The conclusion shows that categorizing William Wordsworth as a merely a nature poet, it will be truly unfair for such a huge writer. His political poetry is filling with patriotism and the criticising of the new era of dictatorship, which will be unfortunate for the readers to be not recognized. | ||
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