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Key Differences between Pope and Wordsworth

Key Differences Which Separate Pope from Wordsworth In comparing excerpts from Popes An Essay on Man and Wordsworths Prospectus, I found many similarities and some key differences. Popes lean toward the more structured and confined, and Wordsworths lean towards the informal and original. These differences are what separate the styles of both poets and make Pope regular or formal and Wordsworth irregular or unique.Both poems are done in iambic pentameter; however, Popes is rhymed whereas Wordsworths is blank verse. Pope appeared to use an abundance of end-stops, and lacked the personalization that Wordsworth chose by including himself as I.Popes usage of 70% caesura and minimal euphemisms indicate that this poem was driven mainly by form. Wordsworth, on the other hand, applied 77% caesura as in the following lines: Or elevates the Mind, intent to weigh./ Inviolate retirement, subject there./ Of Mighty Poets; upon me bestow (1;8,20) (2;87). Wordsworth also pulls me into the content of the poem by using euphemisms in Of that intelligence which govers all/ The transitory Being that beheld (1;22) (2;97) and personification with Or from the Soulan impulse to herself (1;12).Wordsworth incorporates other strategies for content by including many lines of enjambment. Pope includes parallelism in What can we reason, but from what we know?/ From which to reason, or to which refer? (1;18,20) for a nice balance. Although both seemed to contain a semi-formal diction, Popes An Essay on Man leaned a bit towards the formal. He offered a more structured style and confined form with the constant usage of endstops and the lack of personalization, while Wordsworth chose to accentuate by enjambment, euphemisms, and the constant usage of I which promotes uniqueness and originality....

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