It is generally acknowledged that there are two Wordsworths. One Wordsworth is simple, elemental, forthright. The other is complex, paradoxical, problematic. One is the great poet of natural man and so called nature poet. The other is a visionary, mys...
It is generally acknowledged that there are two Wordsworths. One Wordsworth is simple, elemental, forthright. The other is complex, paradoxical, problematic. One is the great poet of natural man and so called nature poet. The other is a visionary, mystic poet who is ultimately hostile to temporal man and the world of sense. And one Wordsworth is poet of light, the other is poet of darkness. As being known, the age of 1797 to 1814 is that of his poetic maturity. Above all, he was a religious, meditative and philosophical poet. In a sense Wordsworth's constant metaphysical concern continued fro the first period of hip poetic life to the last phase of his poetic life.
Mysticism is the most conspicuos characteristicus of his poetry. In a true sense heh as a visionary sense and he did see visions in this world which other human being could never see clearly. In order to understand William Wordsworth we must understand the world of his mysticism expressed in his poems such as Prelude, Tintern Abbev, Resolution and Independence. William Wordsworth was not only a nature poet but a seer, mystic and actually was a psychologist. What he could find in the world and universe was not the beauty of nature but life in nature. He saw the life, he felt the life.
In this brief thesis the writer have tried to pursue mysticism by analyzing his major poem mentioned above, and also the writer tried to identify and distinguish metaphysical positions and his own identity and his poetical identity in this world. And especially the writer traced his mystic vision through imagery crystallized in his important works.