“And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils”.... “Mechanical mastodons munching the red earth”: such contrasting views of our environment. Daffodils is a poem in which Wordsworth explores the great pleasure that the environment can bring you in times when you feel down. At the beginning of the poem the poet feels lonely, but once he is immersed in the natural environment his mood changes to one of cheerfulness, lightheartedness and joyousness. ‘In such a jocund company’. Not only does his mood show us his great pleasure, but the rhythm used too.
For instance, after he is relieved from frontline duty, Paul gains a deep reverence for the natural world around him: “We hear the muffled rumble of the front only as very distant thunder, bumblebees droning by quite drown it. Around us stretches the flowery meadow. The grasses sway their tall spears; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the soft warm wind of the late summer” (9). The beauty of this sense of f life is even more outstanding because it is the opposite to the death and bloodshed of war. The soldiers then develop an appreciation for the world, which
Sam Beaver was an 11-year-old boy that loved nature and he made friends with the Louis’ family. He brought Louis to his school, where Louis learned to read and write. Louis was happy that he could communicate with humans by writing on a chalk board. When Louis grew up, he fell in love with a beautiful swan named Serena. Serena does not like Louis because he couldn’t make any majestic swan sounds.
In 'The Cat and the Moon', Yeats uses descriptions of the natural world to move from the playful triviality of nature to using images of nature to question what we can and cannot know as humans. He challenges the outward simplicity of nature by reflecting it in his poem alongside suggestions that there may be something magical within nature that cannot always be seen on the surface. Throughout the poem, Yeats has chosen to use a very playful rhythm, like one expected of a nursery rhyme; simple and songlike. This rhythm is particularly noticeable in the opening of the poem, "The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top." This simple rhythm reflects Yeats simplistic view of nature and the pleasure and delight he feels nature should bring to people.
The six year old seemed to be playing a walking game all on his own whilst singing and humming a song. Holden hears it and concludes the song is “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.”This happy and innocent scene lifts Holden’s spirit: “It made me not feel so depressed anymore.” Why? Probably because he likes children and views the child as innocent and unspoilt. Ironically if he had understood that the song is really about whether casual sex is all right, he would have been extremely upset! Holden refers to it again, when his younger sister, Phoebe, insists that he tells her what he wants to become: “.
Its "fearful symmetry" (4) makes the animal seem so exotic. These two contrasting animals first set the mood for the poems. When reading these two poems aloud, one can notice the differences in the two poems just by the sound of them. "The Lamb" has a singsong nursery rhyme cadence to it. The lines flow together very smoothly and calmly.
He looks across to his wife, sitting quietly in the corner. 'Can I say that?' She shrugs indulgently: 'You do what you fucking like.' Sheepish, he grins. This is, I realise, by far the best way of dealing with Fowles, as a supremely gifted but slightly naughty schoolboy.
It goes without saying that though poverty has marred their carefree childhood it has been unable to totally rob them of it. However, if you ever decide to visit these slums you will be in for a treat! These little devils can easily charm you into buying their fresh fruits and candies with their antics (which include reciting nursery poems, singing raunchy bollywood songs
One of the poetic devices that are used is the poets point of view. Marcia Douglas uses words like “They” being a collective but also from her point of view showing that she wasn't there, other wise it would be from her perspective, and there were a mix of people there. The writer uses a variety of characters to show their response to the electricity coming to Cocoa Bottom. She uses long sentences to show how eager the children are to see the light. “They camped on the grass bank outside his house,” “watching the sky turn yellow, orange”.
The Lamb’s simple AABB structure gives it a song or lullaby tune, which adds to its innocent and free flowing nature. Another example of this is the poem’s two stanzas, which also adds an element of free flowing nature in the poem. The Lamb is written as a conversation between the speaker, a child, and the lamb. The rhyming of the poem is quite happy and sweet, with words such as ‘delight,’ ‘bright’ and ‘rejoice.’ The structure of this simple and happy poem represents what Blake wishes the world was like in his time, even though he knew that was impossible. On the other hand, The Tyger’s form, with is six quatrains is much more rigid and structured.