Through close reference to those poems of theirs which you have studied, discuss this assessment of the form and content of Wordsworh or Coleridge's poetry.
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The ode, the most elevated and dignified kind of lyric poetry, was originally a ceremonious poem written to celebrate public accasions or exalted subjects. Among the many classical authors of the odes, Pindar and Horace have exercised the greatest influence on later writers. Pindar's odes were written for musical accompaniment and have extremely elaborate stanzaic structures. Pindar's odes were poems of praise and glorification in stanzas patterned in sets of three, strophe, anti-strophe and the …
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…the natural world's privileged power to lead from joy to joy than in our ability to follow. Wordsworth's originality refuses to define itself as a mere inventiveness. Instead of concocting imaginary worlds for our diversion, he directs us back to the one world which is real, even if its very familiarity can sometimes make it almost invisible. His genius as Keats so accurately observed, "is explorative" and his best poems moves us to see more.
…the natural world's privileged power to lead from joy to joy than in our ability to follow. Wordsworth's originality refuses to define itself as a mere inventiveness. Instead of concocting imaginary worlds for our diversion, he directs us back to the one world which is real, even if its very familiarity can sometimes make it almost invisible. His genius as Keats so accurately observed, "is explorative" and his best poems moves us to see more.
