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‘[I]n that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better…
‘[I]n that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity’ (William Wordsworth, Preface, Lyrical Ballads (1802)).
Discuss this view of the representation of ‘Low and rustic life’ in relation to one or more texts of the period.
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Possible tensions
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is rural life/these people, being effectlively represented, or merely being spoken about, spoken for
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Pros
low and rustic life as emotionally rich... free from social performance or artifice... closer to the truth
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p1 - emotional authenticity... depends on class and lifestyle difference to create emotional resonance and poetic meaning.
it is Wordsworth—the educated, leisured observer—who frames and narrates this experience, transforming lived working-class reality into a vehicle for poetic reflection. The poem thus oscillates between empathy and appropriation: it uses class difference not to erase boundaries between poet and subject, but to mine those very boundaries for emotional and aesthetic power.
nature as not just a scenic backdrop to rural life, but an active force that facilitates and sustains emotional depth.... the rural poor live in close harmony with the natural world, and it is this proximity to nature that fosters what Wordswroth calls 'the essential passions of the heart'
CRITICAL ANGLE: does not remove material circumstance and class realities from poems, emotional richness is inherently boundup in this hardship.
Makes the emotional vision more convinciing,