关键词: 华兹华斯, 乞丐, 无助, 影响力, 浪漫主义洞见

Abstract: After a strong disease from following the French revolution and Godwins social ideas, William Wordsworth went back home and heard the sad music of humanity from the ordinary peoples life and found his poetic themes. He described a series of the miserable life of the mean people, of which “The Old Cumberland Beggar” is the most Wordsworthian. The helpless old beggar has an unusual power. He not only called up peoples sympathy, promoted the spread of concern and love, raised the virtue of the benefactor, kept the traditional custom, but also gave the poet a romantic insight of the divine relationship between man and nature.

Key words: Wordsworth, beggar, helpless, power, romantic insight