William Wordsworth - A True Lover of Nature

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Nature has always been an inspiration to the poets. They have personified the moon as a silvery lady and the greenery as a lady of spring. William Wordsworth, a famous poet of the Romantic Age has related most of his poems to nature. As the second child among five siblings, he was always encouraged by his father to read poems. He read poems of great poets like John Milton, William Shakespeare and Edmund Spencer. Their verses in a way captured the mind of little William Wordsworth at a very tender age.

Lyrical Ballads, The Preludes and the Lucy Gray are considered as one of the most famous verses of William. Three of them were written at different stages of his life; Lyrical Ballads was published in the year 1789. It actually is a collection of several poems written by him and four by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The Preludes, was published after his death by his wife. It is like a semi autobiography describing his early life which he did modified at times with the help of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth.

Lucy Gray an imaginary character of William Wordsworth is divided into five works. This pseudo character was a part of William's loneliness. Among all his works William Wordsworth had a great affinity for this character. According to one of the critic, William Wordsworth "created the character, lived with it and cried on her death".

Among all his beautiful poems the most convincing work is about River Yarrow. In this poem he refers to the river giving a true picture of life. In his poem Yarrow Unvisited he was scared to visit the valley thinking about the sadness that could overshadow him if it fails to match his inception. He heard much about the heavenly place and drew pictures of vivid imaginations in his mind.

On his visit he was surprised to see that the place was beyond ingenuity. In his piece Yarrow Visited, he commented that 'the things of reality are far more beautiful than things of imagination'. He was however not satisfied with his first visit and hence he again visited the place which he described in Yarrow Revisited.

Visit the section of poems by William Wordsworth [http://www.coralhub.com/William-Wordsworth-Selected-Poems-Wordsworth-William-Gill-Stephen/76251] and float in nature. Enjoy the beauty of his poems and visualize the dreams inspiring them.

Naresh R is a passionate writer and loves to try new ways of expressing nature and other realities through words. In all her articles she has made an attempt to present something which is new and worth admiring.

Punjabi Poetry Books - Portrayal of Punjabi Culture

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When we talk about Punjabi culture, lots of things come to our mind such as Punjabi music, cuisine, dance and traditions. But one thing that is simply unforgettable is the poetry. The sophistication of this culture and its influence can be easily seen in the Punjabi poetry books. Its history dates back to 11th century when first literature was found in the fragments of old writings. Interesting? Let's dig some more about it and its relevance with the vast Punjabi culture.

Punjabi poetry, in its nascent form, emerged under patronage of Shah Sharaf, Ali Haider, Shah Hussain and Bulleh Shah, as Sufi poetry. Over the time, it has undergone several developments and what we read today is the modern poetry. Most of these books are full of rich traditional verses that bring the true Punjabi culture in front of you. It was first written in Mahajani Script, derived from Sanskrit, when there was no official script for Punjabi language. Later on, when second Sikh Guru Angad Devi Ji invented the script Gurumukhi, it gave a new direction to Punjabi literature and poetry.

Some of the eminent poets who have taken the Punjabi poetry to new horizons are Amrita Pritam, Mohan Singh, Pritam Singh Safeer, Bawa Balwant and Santokh Singh Dhir. Additionally, some of the eminent poets of modern era are Shameel, Harcharan Singh Gill, Parminder Musafir, Shiv Kumar Batalvi and Sukhwinder Amrit. All of these have contributed to the development of Punjabi poetry books in their own ways.

Punjabi poetry started blossoming right from the British Raj in India, which focused on Indian freedom movement and nationalism. The credit of adding diversity into Punjabi poetry books goes to Mohan Singh, Chatrik and Puran Sigh, whose poetry added a flavor of modernism, romance and Sensuality. Modern Punjabi poetry books clearly reflect the far long journey by the poets.

Some of the popular and interesting books written by these authors include:

Kafian Bulleh ShahDiwan-e-GalibKafla Turda RihaKali Gaani Mitran DiKhamban wala GhoraYadaan Di MehakBulleh Shah- Jeevan Ate RachnaMain Te MainTere Te Mere SupnePanth Khalsa ZindabadPanj Nadian Da Geet

If you'll take a keen look at these books, you will find that how meticulously these depict the Punjabi culture, history and reforms. Now if you are keen to learn more about Punjabi culture, don't forget to read these Punjabi poetry books. I hope you will not be disappointed!

Harish Jain is a well known author and owner of Unistar Books, an international publishing house having books in Punjabi, English, and Hindi and occasionally in Urdu. He has authored several books of different genres. Visit http://www.unistarbooks.com/ for any type of books.

About the Poem "Design" From Robert Frost

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In the fifth line of the poem "Design", an invisible hand enters. The characters are "mixed" like ingredients in an evil potion. Some force doing the mixing is behind the scene. The characters in themselves are innocent enough, but when brought together, their whiteness and look of rigor mortise are overwhelming. There is something diabolical in the spider's feast.

The "morning right" echoes the word rite, a ritual - in this case apparently a black mass or a Withces' Sabbath. The simile in line seven is more ambiguous and harder to describe. Froth is white, foamy, and delicate - something found on a brook in the woods or on a beach after a wave recedes. However, in the natural world, froth also can be ugly: the foam on a polluted stream or a rabid dog's mouth. The dualism in nature - its beauty and its horror - is there in that one simile.

So far, the poem has portrayed a small, frozen scene, with the dimpled killer holding its victim as innocently as a boy holds a kite. Already, Frost has hinted that nature may be, as Radcliffe squires suggests, "nothing but an ash- white plain without love or faith or hope, where ignorant appetites cross by chance". Now, in the last six lines of the sonnet, frost comes out and directly states his theme.

What else could bring these deathly pale, stiff things together "but design of darkness to appall?" the question is clearly rhetorical; we are meant to answer, "Yes, there does seem an evil design at work here!" I take the next-to-last line to mean, "What except a design so dark and sinister that we're appalled by it?" "Appall", by the way, is the second pun in the poem: it sounds like a pall or shroud. Steered carries the suggestion of a steering-wheel or rudder that some pilot had to control. Like the word brought, it implies that some invisible force charted the paths of spider, heal-all, and moth, so that they arrived together.

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