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SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO
UNIVERSTY SBA
ASSIGNMENT OF:SOCIAL WORK

ASSIGNED BY:SIR WAHAB
ASSIGNED TO:M.SHOUBAN JATOI
ROLL NO:14 BS ENGLISH 2K17
TABLE OF CONTACT
1 SOCIAL SARTIFICATION
2 DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL
STARTIFICATION
A)POWER
B)ECONOMIC RESOURCES
C)PRESTIGE
D)OCCUPTION
E)CASTE
F)EDUCTION
3 CHARACTERISTICS OF STARTIFICATION
4 SYSTEM OF STRATIFICATION
 SLAVERY
 CASTE
 CLASS
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The Prelude by William Wordsworth: Summary and Critical Analysis
The Prelude begun in 1799 and was completed in 1805, but was published a year after the poet’s
death in 1850. In this work the poet describes his experiences of growing up as a man and a poet
with fullness, closeness and laborious anxiety that is unique in English literature. The Prelude is
the finest work of Wordsworth’s great creative period. Wordsworth conceived the idea of writing a
history of the growth of his own mind, and the various texts of the poem cover a very long period
in the poet’s life during which his style and opinion both changed considerably.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The Prelude is in fact the first long autobiographical poem written in a drawn out process of self-
exploration. Wordsworth worked his way towards modern psychological understanding of his own
nature and more broadly of human nature. There, he places poetry at the center of human
experience. This introspective account of his own development was completed in 1805 and, after
substantial revision, published posthumously in 1850. Many critics rank it as Wordsworth’s
greatest work. The Prelude begins with an account of the poet’s childhood in the English Lake
Country.
He first gives a record of that innocent life out of which his poetry grew; then he goes on to
explore how the mind develops. He reveals a strange world, and the deeper we dive into it, the
stronger it becomes. Like the short poem, besides touching upon many other things, this long
poem traces the development of the poet’s attitudes to nature, his poetic genius, and his
understanding of fellow-beings and the spirit of the universe; he moves from the typical childhood
animal pleasures, through adolescent, sensual passion for the wild and gloomy, to the adult
awareness of the relation of our perception of the natural world, and finally to our sense of the
human and moral world. Wordsworth basically tries to recapture and record the full and intense
life lived through the senses as a child and as a youth. The child or the first stage is characterized
by a vague understanding of the influence of the nature’s moral influence because the child is
indulged in mere bodily pleasures; the adolescent phase is marked with dizzy raptures; he speaks
of youthful love of freedom and liberty, which he enjoyed in rambles through the woods and on
the mountain paths where he did not feel fettered by the claims of the society and schoolwork. But
those pleasures soon ended naturally after the youth began to understand human suffering so that,
back in the nature, he began to make ‘spiritual interpretation of Nature as a living entity, by
following whose ways he could get rid of the eternal problems of human misery. At one phase of
his youth, Wordsworth became strongly attracted to the cause of the French Revolution, feeling
that he was tied emotionally and spiritually to the popular struggle against the monarchy. But the
destructiveness of the revolution and the popular indifference to the real causes and the real heroes,
and the corrupted nature of the leading revolutionaries, disillusioned him, and he returned home
spiritually broken, feeling that the innocent blood has poisoned the real causes of liberty. At that
phase of life, he turned to the nature, finding there not only the solace but also the law and order
lacking in the human society. Wordsworth opposed the mechanical reasoning of the materialistic
sciences and the logical philosophy as too superficial to probe into the sciences and the logical
philosophy as too superficial to probe into the meaning and experience of life and nature.
Wordsworth has said, “To every natural form…. I gave a moral life”. His theory has been called
one of natural pantheism for this reason.
The Prelude is an autobiographical poem but it is not only the poet’s personal confessions; it is an
account of the growth of a poet’s mind. In it he tells the story of his inner life from the earliest
childhood up to 1798. But the events do not always follow each of the chronological or even
logical order, for the poem is shaped by a kind of internal logic of the growth of mind rather than
by the sequence of eternal events. The development is roughly chronological but even as the poem
has progressed well into adulthood, at significant points, reference is made back to his childhood
contrasting later attitudes, or illustrating important aspects of his theme. The poet’s faith is
however based on intuition, and not on reasoning, to understand or analyze life or nature. But his
mysticism is not an escape from common experience, with the help of some kind of fancy, but a
probing deep into common things and experience. His poetry has in fact been called ‘the highest
poetry of the lowest and prosaic things”. According to Wordsworth’s The Prelude, nature had two
basic formative influences on the poet’s mind: one was of inspiration with its beauty and joy, and
the other one was that of fear and awe-inspiring influences that disciplined his mind since early in
life.
The Prelude presents a unique and original understanding of min, life, creativity and such other
things in its examination and linking of the factors both important and trivial, which go to make up
a complex human personality. The poet indeed has an amazing gift for grasping the significance of
the apparently insignificant, and seeing all things as part of a meaningful whole. He tries to show
us what he and his poetry are made of, and they are made not only of great events and emotions of
marriage and passion, and the French revolution, but of small things that a less observant or
creative mind would have forgotten: of boating expeditions, of a chance meeting with old sailors,
or dreams, of the noise of the wind in the mountains, of the sight of the ash trees outside his
bedroom window.
It is interesting to note that while The Prelude is

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