I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

The mood is cold, discontented, frustrated and lonely. Yeats was probably telling his readers the exact situation of all the soldiers fighting in the world wars, tired and wanting to go back home to their families. The tone in “Follower” is admiring, annoyed, comforting and passionate. The mood is…

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1 Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. 2. Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really saying? Figurative LanguageQuoteMeaningMetaphorPoem: Hope by Emily DickersonQuote: “Hope is the thing with feathers”This means a…

is bored, restless or lonely. In the early stanzas of the poem, the poet brilliantly employs the use of reverse personification. The poet gives a metaphorical comparison of the speaker with an object of nature that is the cloud – “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (Tutschka 5). The poet also personifies the daffodils as if they were human, “Dancing and tossing their heads”, he also describes them as being in “a crowd, a host” (Tutschka 5). In the poem, the persona is not a cloud yet for a slight…

There is much power in this poem in the use of the simile, a comparison between two unlike things using the word as. In this poem Wordsworth immediately immerses himself into Nature with the first line that employs a simile: "I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o 'er vales and hills." Further, the following stanza begins with another simile: "Continuous as the stars that shine/And twinkle on the milky way." The daffodils are personified as they are referred to as "a crowd,/A…

William Wordsworth's poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, were both able to express the authors' relationships with nature. In order to convey their adventure through nature, both authors used a similar alternating pattern of tones; sometimes gloomy and sometimes pleasing to convey their adventure through nature. Wordsworth begins his poem in a depressing tone by stating “I wandered lonely as a cloud…” to describe how lonely he…

soon deteriorating into the commonplace. One poem from this time that greatly embodies this goal of endless endurance is found in another noteworthy poet of the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, William Wordsworth. Titled, "I wandered lonely as a cloud" this poem and its themes can be found still in songs from the second half of the 21st century. These songs include, "Back to Earth" by Peter Gabriel, "Holocene" by Bon Iver and “Mr. Blue Sky” by…

idealization of women and children. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake are known as the major figures of Romanticism in English literature. Their romantic poems, “The Lamb” by William Blake, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode to The West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and will be…

meaning of the poem, the author may use formal, middle, or informal diction. Diction needs to be analyzed by the selection of vocabulary but the author and how they use it to bring their poem together. The poems “Sailing to Byzantium,” “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” and “On Turning Ten” all have different types of diction that are specific to the poem itself, yet different to one another. Using diction, all three authors bring a different feel and meaning to each poem. In “Sailing to Byzantium”…

pentameter, Wordsworth used this techniques to reflect the simplicity of the romantic poem, in the first line he used the word "wandering" which it means walking around without a purpose, the poet is metaphorically compared himself to a cloud "I wandered lonely as a cloud", he used personification when he described the "daffodils" as they were dancing happily, he gave them a human quality, this technique implies connection between man and nature, which is a one of Wordsworth's method in poetry,…