William Blake's poetry and other Romantic poetry can be difficult to understand at times. Commonly, there are underlying stories in each of the poems which can be discovered by researching the poet. The author of the following blog, Carol Rumens, decided to pay tribute to Romantic poets by blogging and providing information about the authors and the poems themselves.
When first clinking on the link, you will be taken to Wordsworth's poem,
"Nutting". Here, Rumens has provided us with the poem itself, and also
background on Wordsworth. She has done an exceptional job with her analysis' and allows for the reader to discover the meaning and even the syntax of the poems. For example, Rumens has given her readers a summary of the poem at
first, and then told us why Wordsworth wrote the poem and in which context it
was written. This has helped me to understand the complex poetry of
Wordsworth and will also help you to make your own analysis on the
poems.
In my opinion, it is important to get to know a poet before you read their poetry. The background information in the blog will assist you in what the poet was implying throughout the poem, and as I said before, the poets underlying story or moral.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/26/romantic-poets-nutting-william-wordsworth
When continuing to peruse Rumens blog, I have noticed that she has also analyzed poems by Robert Burns, John Keats, and Samuel Coleridge. This blog will be great help to anyone studying Romantic poets!
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