Lyrical Ballads Captures The Hour of Feeling Essay -- Coleridge Wordsw

Lyrical Ballads were written in a time of great change. They were dominated by the French Revolution and both Wordsworth and Coleridge felt great impact from this. There was disruption all all over with the American War of Independence and other wars worldwide. Britain itself was changing rapidly payable to colonial expansion, which brought new wealth, ideas and fashion, and there was much disturbance to both the mountain and the land with the act of enclosure, which may have meant more effective culture but less work. The introduction of the Poor Laws meant that landowners paid their remaining provide very(prenominal) little knowing that they would be supplemented by poor relief. n invariablytheless the conditions stated by the Laws in front aid would be given were very similar to ?The Last Of The Flock? with people having to give up every(prenominal) means of self support and therefore reduce the chance of them ever living independently again. The Industrial Revolutio n introduced the new ?middle? coterie for which umteen of these poems were written for. They use simple language to allow them to visit and self educate, which many of them were very interested in doing and bettering themselves, much homogeneous Wordsworth himself and his sister as shown in ?Tintern Abbey?. Here he talks of her world at the stage of education that he was five years forrader when he last visited. Despite all the war and upheaval there was very little provision for those who got left behind such as those left unemployed due to the Industrial Revolution and enclosure as well as returning servicemen. The effect of this was felt widely as shown in ?The Female Vagrant?, the wife of a soldier constrained to move countries etc and the increasing state of poverty they lived through. In a dissimilar culture ?The F... ...t brought all the great things they had hoped for and things had not got any better, in many cases things had actually deteriorated. Wordsworth and Coleridge seemed to be of a similar opinion to the general universe of discourse throughout this whole period, they both began full of optimism for this time of change before slowly becoming more against it as shown in some of their poetry. ? recital for Fathers? for example is a rather cynical poem focusing on a negative area of the human condition as a whole. Lyrical Ballads very much reflects Wordsworth and Coleridge?s beliefs on society at the time and to me they seem to be of the same opinions as the general cosmos during that period. The poetry and indeed the Romantic Movement also illustrated the ?hour of cutaneous senses? well and therefore I believe that Lyrical Ballads captures the ?hour of feeling? very successfully.