![]() ![]() True, nationalism was a part of the Romantic character but Wordsworth's was blatantly driven by his all-pervasive passion for Lucy. So much so, that even his love for his country can be traced to his devotion to her. He seems to see her, feel her at every point in place and time. ![]() Lucy is "The joy of (his) desire " She is "cherished", present everywhere. In revealing it, the poet is baring his soul. The love for Lucy is intimate and intense. Of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real events, yet (especially in those parts of the general sympathy which are pleasing and delightful) do more nearly resemble the passions produced by real events, 'Passion' may have been un-decorous in society then but a poet's fundamental character lay in his ability And nothing is more obvious than Wordsworth's reliance on feeling and emotion both as inspiration and subject of poetry. All five of his 'Lucy' poems - 'Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known', 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways', 'I Travelled Among Unknown Men', 'Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower' and 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' - confirm his poetic perspectives. Wordsworth's poetry contained elements of Shakespeare's lunatic, lover and poet, even as Wordsworth the poet arrived at the thought that he outlined in his Preface. ![]() Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. ![]()
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