The Implications of Dorothy Wordsworths Own Intellectual...

The Implications of Dorothy Wordsworths Own Intellectual Evaluation Dorothy Wordsworth is extremely critical of her poetic abilities; she personally goes as far to say that she has, no command of language. Her lack of self-confidence in her poetic talents makes her reluctant to publish poems like A Winters Ramble in Grasmere Vale. Even when Dorothy overcomes her unwillingness to publish her work she still displays a certain level of self-consciousness for she transmits her poetic works to her audience anonymously or under pennames. Partially, this feeling of incapacity as a writer is the result of the public resistance toward female poets of the Romantic period. Consequently, arenas of publication are very difficult to enter into†¦show more content†¦Nevertheless, the publication history of such poems as, A Winters Ramble in Grasmere Vale, reveals a person who felt intimidations when it comes to revealing her poetry and exposing herself to an audience beyond her immediate circle of intimate community. Dorothys own feelings of inadequacy as a writer leads her to suffocate her poetic works; it is rational to connect her own smothering of her poetic transmission with her critics negative impressions of her poetry. The exact date Dorothy Wordsworth composes A Winters Ramble in Grasmere Vale remains a mystery. Nevertheless, an examination of her inhabitation of Grasmere in relation to the poem provides a very good estimation of when this poem is conjured. Dorothy and William inhabit Grasmere Vale in December of 1799. The letter Dorothy writes to her brother Richard on December 14, 1799 exacts the date William and Dorothy move to their new abode in Grasmere; We shall set off for Grasmere on Tuseday. The content in A Winters Ramble in Grasmere Vale unveils that she is talking about her first days in Grasmere. The title exposes a possible range of dates when Dorothy creates this composition; these dates logically being those after her move to Grasmere, thus, late 1799. Reading her poem also reveals that this composition is not made immediately upon her settlement in Grasmere; A stranger, Grasmere, in thy vale, / All faces then to me unknown. (lines 1-2) A