Sylvia Plath's I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

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I WONDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD I wondered lonely as a cloud is a poem composed by William Wordsworth who was born on 7 April 1770 in Cumbria. He attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where he began to write poetry but none was published until 1793. He married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend, and they had five children together. Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge collaborated on Lyrical Ballad, published in 1798. William Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850, leaving his wife to publish The Prelude three months later.

There is no frigate like a book
There is no frigate like a book is a poem composed by Emily Dickinson who was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties.
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At the age of eight, Plath published her first poem. She is a star student as she received a scholarship to Smith College in 1950.She got married after met Ted Hughes at a Cambridge University party within month. Once teaching America, the married couple decided to involve to writing full-time. Plath published her first book of poetry after had her first child, Frieda. In 1962, she had an appendix operation and the birth of their son, Nicholas where her writing became distressed. She took her own life by gas in her cold London flat, aged 30 …show more content…
On the base of statue, he finds written the great man empty boast that are inscribed the words "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" .In the end, nothing remains. The statue was in a huge broken piece without boundaries and unprotected. Only the “lone and level sands,” which stretch out around it.
The important issue discussed in the poem is about making a statue, pride and arrogant. The poet view explicitly that something do not last forever and he exposed the folly and vanity of human glory and power. He means that everything is fleeting. There is no permanent glory given to anybody and even the great deeds will disappear one day. He also thinks that the king is very pride and arrogant towards his works.
. According to Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi states that Islam prohibits statues and three-dimensional figures of the living creatures. The prohibition is even more stressed in case the statue is for a being already dignified as Angels, prophets, the Virgin, or idols like cows for Hindus and so on . We need to understand the Islam’s stand on this issue as a means of safeguarding the concept of monotheism. Allah says, So avoid the abomination of idols and avoid lying speech

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