By Shinelle Lam 9 October 2013 The poem‚ “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost is one that appears rather simple. The speaker is walking through the woods that have been freshly laden in snow. He is admiring the scenery laid before him. Even though he wants to stay and take in more of what he is seeing‚ he keeps his other duties in mind and how much distance there is left for him to fulfill them and mentions there is a choice he has to make which is considered most
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills‚ When all at once I saw a crowd‚ A host‚ of golden daffodils; Beside the lake‚ beneath the trees‚ Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way‚ They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance‚ Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside
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It is through the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth that the reader can recognize everything nature has to offer. Wordsworth opens this poem by claiming that he is a cloud observing the nature underneath him. From here he sees a large field of daffodils‚ then further describes the deeper meaning of these flowers using a series of poetic devices. In the second and third stanzas‚ Wordsworth glorifies the image of the daffodils. He describes them as endless and “continuous
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Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? By William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ Nor lose possession
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unprecedented number and range of literary‚ academic‚ and public honors. 1 <br> <br><b>The Road Not Taken</b> <br>Although I must admit that I am not a poetry fan‚ many of the poems of Robert Frost appeal to me‚ and this would have to be the one that appeals the most‚ in other words‚ it is my favorite poem. When I first read this poem‚ I liked it because of its free verse style (which I like) and its apparent simplicity‚ but‚ after much study‚ its true meaning became apparent. The obvious basic meaning
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth（1770-1850） I. His Life 1770 — born in Cumberland‚ now called Wordsworth House 1779 - 1787 — attended the Grammar School 1787-1791 — studied at St John’s College‚ Cambridge 1790 — visited revolutionary France and supported 1793 —published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches 1795 — met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. 1797 — moved to Somerset with his sister Dorothy 1798 — produced Lyrical Ballads together with
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Frost Speech – Keith Haynes The lines of poetry I have just recited are stanzas 1-3 of Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening. In this poem Frost conveys the idea of a man stopping by some mysterious woods on a snowy evening and absorbing the quiet‚ beautiful scene. Frost reveals the temptation for the protagonist to stay for longer than he needs to in these woods‚ but knowing he has to return to reality and must continue travelling past the woods before he can rest for the night. In stanza one
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imageries that have been used frequently by Robert Frost is the snow imagery. Although the snow imagery appears in many other poems by Frost we will be dealing with the poems “Desert Places” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Even though “Desert Places” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” share many qualities such as the common imagery of snow‚ the scene of the speaker travelling at night and the quantity of stanzas‚ they are as equally different or even more so. The speakers of the
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message to us: “Man work together”‚ I told him from the heart‚ “Whether they work together or apart”.
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth’s "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a lyric poem focusing on the poet’s response to the beauty of nature. The description of the process‚ which the speaker goes through‚ is represented by a natural scene where the speaker‚ plants and the surroundings become united. The poem is written in a figurative language‚ combining images‚ similes and personification. The speaker‚ at the beginning of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”‚ views himself as a wandering
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