Wordsworth and Leopardi

Wordsworth and Leopardi

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Wordsworth

L'Infinito

Leporadi

Nature concept

I wondering lonely as a cloud

Heart concept

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in a smallvillage in Cumbria, educated at Cambridge and graduated in 1791.He became famous for his poetry the lyrical ballads in where he explain the poetry and the role of the poet.There are 4 points, for him, and thy are

• observation;
• recollection;
• filtering;
• composition.

Another very important point, in Wordsworth's life, is the realatonship with Coleridge, because they inspired each other, and they gave birth to the romantic movement.

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Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati, in Italy. He had a very difficult childhood because of the strict rules of the parents. He spent his adolescence studyng so muchr that he had vision problem. He tried to escape several times without succeses, but at the end he succesed and leave Recanati. Leopardi will became famous for hi wonderful way of writing poetry and for the emotions that his works create to te readers.

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I Wondering lonely as a cloud

I Wondering lonely as a cloud

The first publication in 1807, and after a reviw he republished it in 1815.In this poem Wordsworth talk about the relationship between the poet and the nature; the poet felt free like a -natural element.There are 4 stanzas:

1. The poet saw a group of daffodils while he was walking
2. He said that the side od daffodils is impressive because they were so many;
3. The poet is happy but is not aware of his happiness-> past verb, he recreated a past experience;
4. The immagine of daffodils reappears , while he was laying on his coach, and it recreated the same emotion -> present verb, thought about the present.

"THE POETRY IS THE SPONTANEOUS OVERFLOW OF POWERFUL FEELINGS, AND ITS ORIGIN FROM EMOTIONS RECOLLECTED IN TRANQILLITY"

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L'Infinito

L'Infinito

In this poem we can find all the most important point of Leopardi'poetry. in the poem there are three themes: infinite space, time and silence. The text of ''L'infinito'' is also visual images such as the hedge and auditory perceptions such as superhuman silences and the deepest stillnes. The whole poem is closely connected to the author's Theory of pleasure. Leopardi recognizes the objective force of the limit as a human conditio. And the same time the will to try to overcome what as been imposed on us

"e questa siepe, che da tanta parte dell'ultimo orizzonte il guarrdo esclude"

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Nature Concept

Nature Concept

William Wordsworth has a pantheistic vision, nature includes all reality, both innanimate things and human nature. He also defines himself as an intermediary between Nature and Man. And finally, he find comfort in it. Leopardi, instead, belive that she is <<mother childbirth and wants stepmother>>. For him, nature is indifferent; it promises us pleasure but then does not relize it. In Leopardi's cosmic pessimism, is indiffeent because is uninterested in man; in fact, nature is what it is and cannot be different.

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Heart Concept

Heart Concept

For Wordsworth our heart gets full of happiness and good feelings thanks to the view of nature. For this reason in right to say that emotion recollected in tranquillity is the way to make our heart full of joy and happiness. On the other hand, Leopardi think that our heart will never be full of pleasure and happiness, because we are destinate to be hangry , for this reasons we will never find the pleasure that Wordworth find looking the nature. Leopardi is a very pessimistic poet, and he only want to return back to his childhood, because when we are young we don't know what the evil is and we are innocent.

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