Comparative Essay on Romantic Poetry - In London, September 1802 vs. :: English Literature

Comparative Essay on Romantic Poetry - In London, phratry 1802 vs. The World Is Too Much With Us Late and Soon - WordsworthWordsworths poems initiated the Romantic era by emphasizing feeling,instinct, and pleasure above formality and mannerism. More than allpoet before him, Wordsworth gave expression to unformed human emotionhis lyric Strange fits of passion have I known, in which the speakerdescribes an inexplicable fantasy he once had that his lover was dead,could not have been written by any previous poet.The message that these poems sent across may be interpreted as beingcynical and nostalgic towards the people, nation and the era in whichthe author lives. In The World is Too Much, the speaker angrilyaccuses the modern age of having befogged its connection to nature and toeverything meaningful Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers/ Little we see in Nature that is ours / We have given our heartsaway, a cheap boon He says that even when the sea bares her bosomto the moo n and the winds howl, humanity is still out of tune, andlooks on uncaringly at the spectacle of the storm. The speaker wishesthat he were a heathenish raised according to a different vision of theworld, so that, standing on this pleasant lea, he might see imagesof ancient gods rising from the waves, a sight that would please himgreatly. He imagines Proteus rising from the sea, and Tritonblowing his wreathed horn. This poem in a very clear manner showsthe flaws of society and his views against such flaws. In London,September 1802 Wordsworths views are not so clear. The use of suchaccusations The Wealthiest Man among us is the best /For comfort,being, as I am, opprest. The foundation of this poem is not reprobate all that is in his life but nature, rather he attempts toshow the shortcomings of society in an effort to go back and reflectupon the lost ways of the past. This is supported with excerpts likeWe must run glittering like a brook and No grandeur now in natureor a book show t he authors view that there is potential for societyand that is has the ability to change. This is quite contrary to thepessimistic outlook of The World is Too Much.The structure of some(prenominal) these poems is that of an Italian sonnet muchlike many other famous sonnets Wordsworth wrote in the early 1800s.Sonnets are fourteen-line poetic inventions written in iambicpentameter. An Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is divided into two parts,