Tenets of Wordsworth in Resolution and Independence
Romanticism officially began in 1798, when William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge anonymously published Lyrical Ballads. This work marked the official
beginning of a literary period which had already begun many years before 1798. A work is
defined to be of a certain period by its characteristics, therefore to be considered a
Romantic work, the work must contain aspects which are termed "Romantic." A few
typical "Romantic" aspects are: love of the past; sympathy to the child's mind; faith in the
inner goodness of man; aspects of nature having religious, mystic, and symbolic
significance; and reconciliation of contrasting ideas to make a point. Wordsworth
flourished in these ideas in a poem called Independence and Resolution. In this poem
Wordsworth shows the reader what he thinks his life is like and what he wants it to be
like.
In its essence, Resolution and Independence is an open book......
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