Question

Write character sketch of any poet of your text book.

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Answer 1

Answer:

Physical characteristics are the first things we notice when we meet someone. Therefore, this is a good starting point when writing a character sketch. Is your character a woman or a man? Is he or she tall or short? Is your character bald? How old is your character? Does he or she have a disability?

Authors, eager to explore the in-depth psychology of their written subjects, might discount these details as unimportant and base. But it is often these very details that lead to conflict or are the means through which we explore a character's psychology. As an example of this, we recommend reading Flannery O'Connor's Good Country People; in this short story, the physical details of the main character are representations of her internal state. Without a vivid description of this character's physicality, a critical dimension of the plot would be lost and the central conflict would be nonexistent. Answering questions about your character's physicality is the first step in creating a fully realized character.

Answer 2

Answer:

William Wordsworth

Explanation:

William Wordsworth, a poet and one of the foremost founders of English Romanticism, is the author and narrator of the essay “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.” Through the essay, Wordsworth criticizes the literature of Neoclassical writers and declares the principles and aims of the Romantic movement. Wordsworth disdains both the early to mid-Neoclassical writers’ emphasis on decorum, as well as the late-Neoclassical writers’ penchant for sensationalism, which, he argues, leads to artificiality and dulling of the mind. For Wordsworth, the remedy for these trends lies in returning to nature and the “rustic” life and language of the peasantry, as well as getting in touch with one’s emotions as an aesthetic experience. Born and brought up in a poor part of the English Lake District, Wordsworth admired the working class and disdained hierarchical social order. He believed that the purity and sincerity of a simpler life helps humans stay human; thus, he wrote ballads that allowed readers to vicariously experience this invigorating simplicity. Furthermore, though Wordsworth believed poetry to be “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” he is also known for his emphasis on “recollecting emotions in tranquility,” so as to prevent the poet from writing in a state of emotional excess. As a young man, he had enthusiastically witnessed the upheavals of the French Revolution, only to have been bitterly disappointed by its effects. This experience led him to perceive a need for balancing the passionate emotions with calm contemplation. Consequently, readers can perceive that Wordsworth’s poetry is filled with not only deep feeling but also profound thought.