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English 2323 Reading Response 2: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth Reading Assignment

English 2323

Reading Response 2:

Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth

Reading Assignment

Mary Wollstonecraft (D: 218-21): From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: “The Dedication to M. Talleyrand Périgord” (D: 221-23) and “Introduction” (D: 223-27) (Your entire response should be at least 200 words and may be longer.)

William Wordsworth (D: 280-82): Respond to two short poems and two sonnets (D: 355-59). (Your entire response should be at least 400 words—100 words per poem—and may be longer. Be sure to quote lines from the poems for support.)

Short poems:

“Lines Written in Early Spring” (D: 289)
“Expostulation and Reply” (D: 296)
“The Tables Turned” (D: 297)
“Old Man Travelling” (D: 298-99)

“She dwelt among the untrodden ways” (D: 316)
“I travelled among unknown men” (D: 318)
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” (D: 345)
“My heart leaps up” (D: 346)
“Elegiac Stanzas” (D: 353)

Sonnets
Choose any of the sonnets (D: 355-59) (Refer to the table of contents link for a list of sonnets in the textbook if you don’t have the 10th edition of the textbook. You must choose sonnets that are in the 10th edition of the textbook.)

Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797)

(Textbook introduction to Wollstonecraft, pp. 208-11)

If you read the introduction to Wollstonecraft in the textbook, you know that she had a very eventful and tragic life, beginning with her father’s abuse of her mother, then the death of her close friend, Fanny Blood, her disastrous love affair with Gilbert Imlay, and finally her death in childbirth at the age of 38. I’ve always been amazed that she could keep writing in a very rational fashion throughout some of the worst times of her life (even after a suicide attempt). Though the textbook says that many who wrote about the rights of women in the 19th century ignored Wollstonecraft’s contribution to women’s rights, I’ve also read that the A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was read widely by both American and British women.

Suggestions for responding to Wollstonecraft

You should write a minimum of 200 words for your entire response.

Comment on at least two quotations that you find interesting from “The Dedication to M. Talleyrand Périgord” (D: 221-23) and two from “Introduction” (D: 223-27). (Use these links if you don’t have the textbook.) In your response, you should explain why you chose a particular passage and its significance as it relates to the time period. (Note: Do not respond to the textbook introduction—some students have done this in the past.)

Show how Wollstonecraft’s ideas are still relevant in today’s world. To do this, you will again need to respond to two quotations from the “Dedication” and two from her “Introduction.” You will need to explain what makes the Wollstonecraft’s words meaningful now. Be sure to include the quotations.

For more on Wollstonecraft, see the following website:
The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)

(Textbook introduction to Wordsworth, D: 280-82)

I’ve always thought of Wordsworth as a somewhat quiet nature lover; however, his early life was anything but quiet. He went to France to become a tutor and met and had an affair with a young woman named Annette Vallon. This resulted in the birth of his daughter Caroline. Wordsworth didn’t marry Annette, but he helped both Annette and Caroline financially. He supported the French Revolution at first, as did most of the poets of the Romantic age, but eventually became disillusioned with the violence of the time after the revolution. His close friendship with Coleridge was very important—he and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads jointly.
This biography from poetryfoundation.org will tell you all you want to know about Wordsworth and more–it’s quite comprehensive, but also very readable. Since this biography also discusses his writing, I think that you will find it useful as you respond to his poetry.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-wordsworth

I checked my very old copy of Wordsworth’s poems and found a few passages that I had underlined all those years ago from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

Here Wordsworth explains his ideas regarding the poems in Lyrical Ballads:

The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; . . . because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.

For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.

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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge—it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Suggestions for responding to Wordsworth’s poems (two short poems and two sonnets)

You should write a minimum of 400 words for the entire response, including quotations from the poems. You may, of course, write more.

1. Show how the ideas from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (above) relate to Wordsworth’s poems, especially his statements regarding using the language of real people and conditions that existed during the early 19th century–or poems that reveal the “spontaneous overflow powerful feelings.” Respond to two short poems and two sonnets.

2. Write a personal response in which you explain your reasons for choosing specific poems. In a personal response, you should show how the poem relates specifically to you and your life. For example, you might recall a time when you were hiking or just walking and enjoying nature. Or perhaps a scene was so interesting to you that you wrote a poem or journal entry about it (or took a photo or drew a picture). Be sure to write about two short poems and two sonnets. (You will find questions for a personal response at the end of this file.)

3. Several of Wordsworth’s poems show his sadness concerning changes in England. As we all know, Houston is constantly changing, with old beautiful houses and businesses being torn down to make way for new (and more expensive, usually) buildings. If you reacted to some of these changes in the same way that Wordsworth did, you could discuss how a particular poem expresses your feelings. You might also imagine what Wordsworth would think about modern London–about modern life in general. (You could find a website, perhaps, with images of London as it is now.) Some of the poems which describe this somewhat melancholy feeling:
“Lines Written in Early Spring,” “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” “London, 1802,” “The World Is Too Much With Us,” “Mutability.” Again, you must respond to two short poems and two sonnets.

Here are the questions for responding to poetry. I am including these in all of the files for your convenience.

Here are the questions for a personal response to the poetry:

What did you like about the poem? (Include lines that you enjoyed and why.)

What didn’t you like?

Do you relate to the poem personally? In what way? (Include lines or phrases that show the personal connection.)

What are your favorite lines? What do you like about them?

What did you learn from the poem? (This could be something factual or historical, or it could be something you learned about life in general.)

Would you read this poem to a friend? Why? What part of the poem would the friend relate to?

How does the poem reflect the poet’s philosophical beliefs? (Use lines from the poem to show this. You will need to read a biography of the poet to respond to this question.)

How does the poem relate to the poet’s life? (Again, support this with lines from the poem.)

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