... I found myself relating directly with Wordsworth. I could feel Wordsworth's account of his youthful vigor coming alive within me. I became confident that the same life force that Wordsworth saw in the Abbey, I would grow to recognize. And I looked forward to a joy that Wordsworth was enjoying as a result his connection to the Abbey. In Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads he outlines the key elements that ... poetry requires. Wordsworth tells how the main subject of poetry should be "humble and ... rustic life" mixed with "colouring of imagination." (Longman 332) Wordsworth goes on t...

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... than a deep feeling of like; rather, it is an overwhelming force that mesmerizes every part of you, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Wordsworth found "love- in many things including: relationships and self-awareness, however, after reading Lyrical Ballads, I found that he appeared to be particularly interested in that of nature and maternal passion, especially for mothers who have been abandoned. ... Perhaps this theme recurs because he has taken nature to act as his surrogate mother. Wordsworth's gendered poetics clearly manifests itself in his poems The Idiot ... mental and p...

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