Response to ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by William Wordsworth The speaker in this poem talks about a time when he meandered through the valleys and hills and stumbled across a crowd of daffodils in a field. He describes in detail the seemingly never-ending sight of the daffodils throughout the poem‚ and compares their beauty to that of the glistening lake‚ ultimately deciding that the daffodils win because they are more gleeful in appearance. The poem finishes with the poet describing what he
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and William Blake (1757-1827) were both romantic poets. Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th Century. Blake and Wordsworth tended to write about the same things such as nature‚ people and structures‚ such as cities like London. Emotions also played a big part in romantic poems. Often poets would be inspired by a simple view and would write a masterpiece about it. For example‚ Wordsworth lived in the Lake District for
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above Tintern Abbey‚” by William Wordsworth‚ is a romantic poem that uses natural landscapes to induce an individual’s sublime emotional states. Sublime‚ according to Edmund Burke‚ is a profound emotional state experienced when someone is close to wild or dangerous events‚ but not directly in the path of danger. Carl Grosse‚ however‚ criticizes this definition and argues that danger only paralyzes the emotions and blocks sublime from emerging. By juxtaposing society with nature‚ youth with maturity‚
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William Wordsworth’s poetry is characteristic of poetry written during the Romantic period. His pantheism and development of ambiance‚ the thoughts and feelings expressed and the diction Wordsworth employs are all symbolic of this period’s poetry. In this paper‚ these characteristics will be explored and their "Romantic" propensities exposed. This will be done by utilizing a wide selection of Wordsworth’s poetry spanning the poet’s lifetime. His experiences are certainly mirrored in the subject
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Nature has a dominant role in Wordsworth’s poetry especially in ‘There Was a Boy’ and ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’‚ because in both there is a connection between Man and his surroundings‚ Nature. In ‘There Was a Boy’ and ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ Wordsworth expresses his love for nature in imaginative and creative way‚ for example ‘Uplifted‚ he‚ as through an instrument‚ Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls’. What Wordsworth was trying say is that he boy spoke to nature and it responded
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THE DAFFODILS by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth was an avid observer of nature. In this poem‚ he describes the impression a cluster of daffodil flowers created in his mind when he saw them while taking a stroll beside a lake hemmed by some trees. 1st stanza .. The beauty of the daffodils lifted his mind and his spirit. His imagination and his poetic instincts came to the fore. He could see himself as a cloud floating past the golden- coloured daffodils on the ground where some
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poem to flow ”I wandered lonely as a cloud….when all at once I saw a crowd” .The theme of this poem is nature. The tone of the poem is shown by the use of joyful adjectives such as “golden” or “fluttering” this allows the poem to be light-hearted .Although the main theme in this poem is nature‚ I believe another theme is relationships because Wordsworth seems to have an amazing relationship with nature ‚ in the way he describes the daffodils and when he thinks of the daffodils “his heart with pleasure
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Analysis of Williams Blake’s ”the Garden of Love William Blake William Blake was an English poet and painter that lived from 1757 to 1827‚ but first acknowledged as a great writer after his death. He was fascinated by the bible‚ but against any organized religion. Some people believe he was homosexual because his poems often referred to that‚ but he was married and had kids for a time. He was against all the rules and empty norms Christianity had‚ and thought marriage had too many rules. Analysis
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In these lines Wordsworth writes about when he was younger and the memories he has which he can never replicate. He’s haunted by the beauty of the the rocks‚ the mountains and the woods. He thinks about the charms of the scenery‚ how it looks at the time‚ how it looked in the past and it’s gifts. He gains pleasure from the scenery and reminisces about how nature inspired him even in his younger days‚ how it what he was looking at would possibly inspire him in later days. Of the Romantic composers
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The title : ’’ Loves secret ’’ by William Blake is poem of unrequited love‚ the author is narrating a sad love story‚ he feels lovesick. The Author : William Blake was born in London in 1757. He belongs to the pre-romantic period in England. The setting : The poem was written in the 18th century‚ Im England . The Theme : It’s about the departure of a loved one when he admits that he loves her. The departure of the loved one can be interpreted in two ways. In one way‚ departure means her death
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