Simplicity In William Wordsworth

Simplicity is The Ultimate Sophistication

William Wordsworth is an English poet, who is considered to be one of the most accomplished and influential romantic poets whose theories and style created a new tradition in poetry. He composed flowing and sensual as well as intellectual and spiritual rhymes on the spirituality of nature and the wonders of human imagination. He was one of the leaders of romantic movements in the early 19th century. Wordsworth was gifted in making beautiful and highly expressive phrases. Some of the phrases and lines of his poems have become so famous that they are often quoted.

Hereby we are introduced to one of his masterpieces in its simplicity; a poem written about Daffodils.

Wordsworth was wondering around District Lake, lonely, when he saw those daffodils moving with the breeze. Overloaded with burdens of life, he couldn't but enjoy the scene that awakens his poetic sense and moved him to another world of his own.

This poem is highly characterized by the use of all the features of romanticism, employed skillfully to serve the poet's sensual images and move it from a mere scene of nature to a rich , valuable and effective human experience that he won't forget even later when he is alone.

In the first stanza the poet describes a time when he rolled over the valleys and hills, "lonely as a cloud" when he came across a crowd of daffodils stretching out over almost everything

William Wordsworth was not elected to be one of the greatest and most influential poets if it was not for his wit in his use of diction.

A very simple scene of wild flowers growing at the bay of the lake, moving randomly according to the direction of the breeze doesn't hold sophisticated language full of literary terms. Wordsworth kept words simple, parallel to the simplicity of nature; yet, expressive, figurative, beautiful and meaningful, just like