Why Wordsworth Today?: An Introspective Study Based on Modern Life

  • Ujjal Mandal

Abstract

Meditation is the seed of literature and it begins to sprout when knowledge and introspection come together. This present paper focuses on the deep meditation of William Wordsworth and also tries to trace the way to get the placid shadow of Nature and the spiritual enlightenment beyond the paws of ignorance. When the whole human beings are drowning in their artificial and simulated behaviour and intelligence, they take Knowledge and power consciously and letting the Ignorance go unconsciously, in this moment the whole universe needs Wordsworth. The paper also focuses on disentangling the individual's behaviour in responses to environmental shape or form and the construction of knowledge.

Keywords: Behaviorism, Psychology, William Wordsworth, Meditation, Enlightenment.

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Author Biography

Ujjal Mandal

Ujjal Mandal is an Indian poet and a connoisseur of literature who was born on September 21,1995 in Ganguria, Malda, West Bengal. He has two poetry books to his credit - "Ambrosia In Budding Flowers" (English), "Shobder Phul" (Bengali) which are available on Amazon. He has qualified national level SET exam in English subject in 2020 and beside having published a research paper titled "Tagore's The Golden Boat: A Critical Study in Context of Deconstruction Theory and the British Colonialism", his poetry has appeared in India and abroad in various journals, magazines, literary press, blogs and in diverse poetry of anthologies such as - 'Aulos: An Anthology of English Poetry', 'PS: It's Poetry', 'Insulation', 'I Want to Live' and others. He says, "poetry is the philosophical and spiritual combination of heart and mind".

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Published
2021-11-15
How to Cite
Mandal, U. “Why Wordsworth Today?: An Introspective Study Based on Modern Life”. Contemporary Literary Review India, Vol. 8, no. 4, Nov. 2021, pp. 80-91, https://www.literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/996.
Issue
Vol 8 No 4: CLRI November 2021
Section
Research Papers

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