Similar Attitudes Toward Machinery, Language, and Substance in Wordswor

Similar Attitudes Toward Machinery, Language, and Substance in Wordsworth, Pope and DrydenWilliam Wordsworths Preface to lyrical Ballads is from the Romantic Period of British literature, while Alexander Popes The violate of the Lock and washbasin Drydens Mac Flecknoe are both from the Neoclassical Period The Rape of the Lock is from the Augustan Age, while Mac Flecknoe is from the Restoration (Literary). in spite of these discrepancies in the time periods that their respective kit and boodle were perplexd, however, Wordsworth, Pope, and Dryden express similar attitudes toward machinery, language, and substance. Their works evidence their agreement that machinery is a destructive force of serial action and repeat good poetic language should exclude such repeating and be original and substantial, and poetic images can be used to throw substance out of a lack of substance. First, the texts of Wordsworth, Pope, and Dryden evidence their agreement that machinery is a des tructive force of serial toil and repetition. In Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth writes, However exalted a notion we would wish to cherish of the part of a Poet, it is obvious, that, while he describes and imitates passions, his situation is altogether slavish and mechanical, compared with the freedom and power of real and substantial action and suffering (361). In this statement, Wordsworth expresses his come across that an association with anything mechanical, or operated or produced by a mechanism or machine, is not exalted and is unbecoming to a poet machinery does not help produce freedom and substance (Mechanical). In The Rape of the Lock, Pope in like manner demonstrates that machinery causes a lack of freedom and ... ...ntic Period, the three works agree on three ideas. They agree that machinery is a destructive force of serial production and repetition good poetic language should exclude such repetition and be original and substantial, and poetic images can be used to frame substance out of a lack of substance. Interestingly, their views are quite relevant to a British literature student who has to use her laptop electronic computer to produce an original, substantial piece of writing from four blank sheets of paper. whole shebang CitedLiterary Periods of British and American Literature. The Literary Explorer. Rene Goodvin. 15 Nov. 2004.Mechanical. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 2000 Fourth ed. Bartleby.com. 15 Nov. 2004 .(The Longman Anthology of British Literature 2nd Edition, Volumes 1c and 2a).