Surviving the Revolution: Wordsworth’s Spots of Time, Trauma, and History
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This essay argues that Wordsworth’s spots of time in The Prelude havea deeper connection with his sense of history than has commonly beenperceived by critics. Deviating from the viewpoint that the spots of timesignal Wordsworth’s turn from historical to poetical interest, this essayobserves that the spots of time recur across the boundary between historyand poetry. A close look at the figure of the “spot” in Books 9 and 10 ofThe Prelude (1805) reveal that it marks the punctual points in the poet’sencounter with history where the individual mind suffers a sense ofsevere discordance with the world. Often that sense originates from theinability to comprehend the magnitude of the French Revolution and itsviolence. Freud’s analysis of war neurosis helps to unveil the traumaticnature of Wordsworth’s revolutionary experiences, the shock of which isrepeated and intensified with each spot that marks the revolution’s monumentalimpact on the poet’s mind and feeling. A sense of history as theirrational repetition of fear emerges with each repetition of the spot,offering the most profound critique of a revolution forever seized in thatpunctual juncture of historical rupture. Wordsworth’s encounter with historyleaves behind a certain pattern of the mind and residue of feelingthat determine the spots of time after the revolution, giving him a way toput into poetic figure the enigma of human nature and the natural world. Thus, Wordsworth’s poetic form rises out of the traumatic experience ofhaving lived and survived the revolution.
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This essay argues that Wordsworth’s spots of time in The Prelude havea deeper connection with his sense of history than has commonly beenperceived by critics. Deviating from the viewpoint that the spots of timesignal Wordsworth’s turn from historical to poetical interest, this essayobserves that the spots of time recur across the boundary between historyand poetry. A close look at the figure of the “spot” in Books 9 and 10 ofThe Prelude (1805) reveal that it marks the punctual points in the poet’sencounter with history where the individual mind suffers a sense ofsevere discordance with the world. Often that sense originates from theinability to comprehend the magnitude of the French Revolution and itsviolence. Freud’s analysis of war neurosis helps to unveil the traumaticnature of Wordsworth’s revolutionary experiences, the shock of which isrepeated and intensified with each spot that marks the revolution’s monumentalimpact on the poet’s mind and feeling. A sense of history as theirrational repetition of fear emerges with each repetition of the spot,offering the most profound critique of a revolution forever seized in thatpunctual juncture of historical rupture. Wordsworth’s encounter with historyleaves behind a certain pattern of the mind and residue of feelingthat determine the spots of time after the revolution, giving him a way toput into poetic figure the enigma of human nature and the natural world. Thus, Wordsworth’s poetic form rises out of the traumatic experience ofhaving lived and survived the revolution.
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