Date of Award
4-2011
Degree Type
Honors Paper
First Advisor
John Miller, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Craig Challender, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
DerekTaylor, Ph.D.
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the works of Wordsworth and Whitman, focusing on the manifestations of the poets’ language within a socio-cultural construct. The thesis highlights the ways in which the authors’ interactions with socio-cultural events, such as industrialization, impact the ways in which their parole interacts and at times conflicts with the underlying system of poetic tradition. Additionally, the study examines the ways in which Wordsworth and Whitman interact with two binary oppositions central to Romantic philosophy, the living or dead and the pastoral or industrial. The study found evidence to support an epistolary relationship between Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth, or any type of communication for that matter, can be described at non-existent.
Recommended Citation
Everhart, Jeff, "Romanticism, Language, and the Vox Popul: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Wordsworth and Whitman" (2011). Theses & Honors Papers. 142.
https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/etd/142
