The Idiot Boy

Essay about The romantic elements in "The daffodils" Williams Wordworth William Wordsworth's "Daffodils" incorporates the ideas and aspects that are essential in poetry from the Romantic movement. Various peaceful images of nature, including a field of daffodils, possess human qualities in the poem. These natural images express Wordsworth's self-reflections, whether it be tranquil solitude at the beginning of the poem or excitement about being in the company of daffodils at the end. When I read the first few lines of “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth, I was immediately interested in finding out why he was feeling lonely and what was happening around him. While reading this poem I enjoyed how he described everything that was going on around him, I could imagine how he was enjoying nature and how nature comforted him. William Wordsworth’s poem “Daffodils” demonstrates that romanticism and the loneliness of a human being. This theme was communicated through the poet’s use of imagery, diction, structure of poem and tone. Imagery is one of the main poetic devices that helped me determine the theme of the poem “Daffodils”. William Wordsworth was a romantic poet who had the great talent of imagery. Wordsworth’s happy life finished after the death of his parents, so he looked to nature as a source of comfort and escape. Nature had a great impact on his imagination and the way he viewed life. Wordsworth wrote about his feelings through poetry using imagery,…

“Flash upon my inward eye”: The Role of Reflection and Tranquility in William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” In his preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth famously writes that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth, Wu 509). However, it is important to note that he modifies this statement by adding that “though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of…

“A shotgun went off in his leg every time he put it down and he thought, you’re a fool, a dang fool, an awful fool, an awful idiot, a dang idiot, and a dang fool: look at the mess the where’s the mop, look at the mess, and what do you do? Pride, dang it, and temper, and you’re junked it all, at the very start you vomit on everything one on top of another, Beatty, the women, Mildred, Clarisse, everything. No excuse, though, no excuse. A fool, a dang fool, go give yourself up!” -- Fahrenheit 451,…

Don’t get me wrong, making a stand can be good if the individual has reasons. “The girls, and who’d blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say ‘I quit’ to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping they’ll stop and watch me, their unsuspected hero.”, (261-264). Sammy willingly said he quit trying to impress the girls. Needless to say, it did not work. The reason why he quit his job for the girls is because he felt as though the manager was embarrassing them. “You didn’t have to embarrass…

Farewell My Love My face was blank with no expression, as my fellow classmates cried their eyes out. Hugging and kissing went on simultaneously while others waved goodbye through the windows of the crowded, filthy bus. I felt no emotion other than the warm, silky, hands of Amy who sat beside me on our ride home. “Idiots aren’t they… huh?” Amy smirked faintly. “Totally who would cry about such a thing,” I snickered. “ Why can’t they understand that high school starts only in a few months and…

girl you stared at like an idiot for five minutes.” Rick crosses his arms in pride of his jab. I look down at Katrina talking to her friends, each one of them a thorn in my side. They surrounded her at all times like socializing gatekeepers. The only time Katrina was without them was for 50 minutes a day during Chemistry. I had 50 minutes a day with her. 50 minutes to trade notes, formulas, and other lab partner pleasantries. Today that’d change. I hoped. “Dude have you seen Chloe’s boyfriend?…

actions and what is being said about her , can tell a lot about her personality. Miss Strangeworth’s personality can be analyzed by considering what she does. She is very wicked. Paragraph three on page 370 states directly from Ms.Strangeworth ‘’ Didn’t you ever see an idiot child before ? Some people just shouldn’t have children, should they ?” saying that about someone is mean. She has no right to say that about anyone. Strangeworth…

performance and have no enough grades to enter a good school. My parents wanted me to get better education in a better high-school, so they spent quit a few of money and sent me to the school which is good in their eyes. No exaggeration, I learned nothing in the first tow years of high school. I sat with my friends in the last row of the classroom, and played self-phone games or Chinese chess almost every class. However, in the last year of high school, I have to attend the National University…

but hindered him from interacting socially like most of his other peers. He could not even talk to his crush, Holly without running away in tears. Even though it is difficult to talk to someone we may really like, a person should run away in tears out of anxiety. I can relate to Greg on many levels. My opinion of my fellow peers was very low. I thought most of them were “stupid, immature and ignorant.” Not as many of them were as stupid as I thought, in fact I was the stupid one. I still…

yourself and even find a path to a new identity. This time the story was different, I was with someone I met a year before and with who I was dating. In the morning we woke up early just to see the sunrise. An odd image I must say, fifteen young people hiking at five in the morning. We walked up to the tallest hill we could find nearby, attempting to have an unique view of everything beyond our eyeballs. In front of us a valley that leads to the pacific ocean so that you could trick yourself to…