¶ … William Wadsworth. The writer attempts to analyze the poet's technique and style and discuss the use of emotions within those works. There were three sources used to complete this paper. Throughout history authors of literature have used their works to fill their readers with emotions. Poets have been especially good at making the reader feel things that they might otherwise not have felt before reading the work. William Wordsworth is considered one of the most prolific and classic poets in history. His works cover topics of wide range and there are over 900 poems that flowed from his heart to the reader within his life. Many of his works are strong examples of his ability to show emotion in his speakers. The poet is well-known for his ability to reproduce emotion in his reader through the use of diction, rhythm, detail, apostrophe, and imagery. The Lucy poems, The Thorn and Home at Grasmere are three of his finest works when it comes to conveying and reproducing emotion within his readers.

Home at Grasmere "the thorn" and the "Lucy poems" each have their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to the conveyance of emotion and the ability to transfer or reproduce that emotion within the readers.

Wordsworth used many tactics to accomplish the reproduction of emotion within his readers in these three poems. Through apostrophes, diction, rhythm and imagery Wordsworth recreates emotions in each work while being able to make them separate and distinct from each other.

In Home at Grasmere the writing works to draw feelings out of the reader through the use of several tactics. One of the first things the reader notices about this particular work is the rhythm that takes it on the journey of peace and hope.

HOME AT GRASMERE

ONCE to the verge of yon steep barrier came roving school-boy; what the adventurer's age

Hath now escaped his memory -- but the hour,

One of a golden summer holiday (Wordsworth,...

It is a rhythm that causes an immediate emotional relaxation as it sets the stage for the rest of the story to be told. At this point the reader has no idea where the story is going to take him or her but they do know the mood is a memory of peace from childhood. The imagery that is common to Wordsworth's works is also present in this particular poem as well. He speaks of the wonders of childhood, which is youthful and innocent and carefree. He sets the scene for the reader to be taken back to a childhood that they may or may not have had....but certainly can relate to on the level of being part of a common society. The imagery used by Wordswroth conveys an idyllic childhood that is filled with what years later became Norman Rockwell perfection.
But stirring to the spirit; who could gaze

And not feel motions there? He thought of clouds

That sail on winds: of breezes that delight

To play on water, or in endless chase

Pursue each other through the yielding plain

Of grass or corn, over and through,

In billow after billow, evermore

Disporting -- nor unmindful was the boy

Of sunbeams, shadows, butterflies and birds (Wordsworth, 1990)."

Wordsworth spent many poems using imagery and diction to convey the emotions he wanted felt. The tactics used worked because they lead the reader to the desired response or emotion in such a gentle manner the reader is not aware it was not his or her idea to go there. In his poem called the thorn Wordsworth immediately sets the stage for the emotion he wants reproduced when he uses imagery to lead the reader to understand the elderly state of the thorn.

THE THORN

THERE is a Thorn -- it looks so old,

In truth, you'd find it hard to say

How it could ever have been young,

It looks so old and grey (Wordsworth,…