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Being alone in nature is the best thing to help a person be happy and find him or herself. That is the message both Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Emily Dickinson's How Happy is the Little Stone. In the How Happy is the Little Stone, the poem starts out with “How Happy is the little Stone That rambles on the Road alone,” this shows that the rock is happy because he is all alone. We know he is all alone because the poem states that “And independent as the Sun” the speaker is trying to show…

Fusco 1Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)By William Wordsworth1 I wandered lonely as a cloud2 That floats on high o'er vales and hills,3 When all at once I saw a crowd,4 A host, of golden daffodils;5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees,6 Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.7 Continuous as the stars that shine8 And twinkle on the milky way,9 They stretched in never-ending line10 Along the margin of a bay:11 Ten thousand saw I at a glance,12 Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.13 The…

During the bustle of England's industrial revolution, many writers sought comfort in the soft caresses of the natural world. In the majority of his works, William Wordsworth presents a similar theme, returning to dwell on the lowest, ordinary things and basking in the restorative abilities of nature. Longing for the day when England would return to its rural roots, his poetry creates an idol of nature and its power. However, in this world, there exists great certainty in the uncertain nature…

In “Pied Beauty” by Gerald Manley Hopkins and “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” by William Wordsworth, both poets express their feelings upon the beauty of nature but on different ways. Hopkins fascinates for the variety of nature that God has created for the reason that it makes the nature to be unique in their own way. On the other hand, Wordsworth wonders at the silence and tranquility in nature that breaks through the morning in London. In title of the poem, “Pied Beauty,” we can make an…

William Wordsworth combines nature and human interaction to paint a vivid picture through the speaker in the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. The speaker is lonely and is wandering in a world that is bare and high over the hills and valleys. He all over a sudden comes across golden daffodils that blow his mind away through what he describes as the best that he has ever seen in his life. The daffodils are life like and the dance moves and cohesion with different parts of Mother Nature only…

Dana’s Garden By Sidney Shier “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” -Stevie Wonder. My childhood was one full of loneliness and beautiful flowers. Growing up I was picked on and never had any friends. My siblings didn’t quite care for me either, so I would often spend my time alone. My mother, however, would ask me to help her in garden. She was the best gardener I have…

For this project, I am focusing on Flora from the book, The Game of Love and Death, by Martha Brockenbrough. I chose the song, Dream a Little Dream of Me, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong for Flora because it sounds like a song Flora would sing at the Domino. The jazzy trumpet with the noticeable walking bassline, paired with the chemistry of Fitzgerald’s and Armstrong’s voices produces a song that undeniably represents Henry and Flora. When I heard the version of this song sung by…

How does Ee Tiang Hong convey his feeling about the Bougainvillea in ‘To a shrub’ The sight poem “To a shrub” by Ee Tiang Hong is about a Bougainvillea. Ee draws attention to the grace of the flower describing the Bougainvillea; how all the features of the Bougainvillea are all graceful and tirelessly beautiful. Ee uses, poetic techniques; Alliterations and repetition are used for emphasis. Also personifications, metaphor were used to give the Bougainvillea characteristics bringing the poem to…

as a Cloud”, Wordsworth describes how the flowers impact his mood, how it would be impossible to be down in their presence: "The waves beside them danced; but they / Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: / A poet could not but be gay, / In such a jocund company: / I gazed—and gazed—but little thought / What wealth the show to me had brought." Wordsworth also portrays how lonely he was before his discovery of the flowers with a direct relationship to a lone cloud: I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That…

The poem I chose from chapter 4 Images is Sheila Wingfield’s “A Bird” (p. 119). The poem oddly brought back a memory from my childhood. What makes poetry so powerful is its capability to evoke senses like memories and emotions. Images is one of the many tools poetry uses to create a verbal picture. Something as simple as a description of a melted ice cream cone, can remind your favorite or saddest day in summer. The poem is only five lines but the choice of words creates great imagery:…