The prelude 18055/9/2023 ![]() However, Wordsworth projects a continuity of self by looking back to 'a dark / Invisible workmanship' in his childhood communion with nature, which generated the aspiration to 'some philosophic Song' that Wordsworth, now, still feels and acts upon. ![]() The identity Wordsworth seeks to stabilize in writing is not stabilizable because of 'two consciousnesses'. ![]() This thesis will examine how Wordsworth engages with time and language in his creation of 'timely utterances' about the self in The Prelude throughout the process of his writing. I argue that Wordsworth's attempt to stabilize an identity in the mutability of time - in writing - results in a self precariously situated between past and present, speech and silence, for example. AbstractMy thesis explores how Wordsworth develops his poetic identity in 'Growth of a Poet's Mind' in The Prelude. ![]()
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