Question: Was William Wordsworth’s Romantic poetry inspired by the political events surrounding late eighteenth century France, and if so, did his poems influence national opinion towards the French Revolution?
Thesis: Although historians may argue that outside influences such as drastic economic changes and severe social fervors manipulated the original intentions of Wordsworth’s Romantic poetry, lying at the core of the Romantic Movement was a desire to depict true human nature and attitude, which Wordsworth captured (and perhaps influenced), politically and socially in postbellum France.
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You set up the argument well and take a strong stance.
ReplyDeleteThis has little do with your actual thesis, but maybe something to think about when writing your counter. Wordsworth also said in his Preface that he feared that factory life (among other industrial things) would "reduce [the human mind] to a state of almost savage torpor" and that "The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. "
I do not mean to argue against your thesis because I think you have a great point, but just keep this in mind.