I wandered lonely as a cloud. Main idea: The theme in "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" is idea that the main is able to appreciate the wealth of nature's beauty retrospect and each time he does the beauty of it brings him comfort. Often when looking back into past events of our lives, we tend to be filled with sorrow for missed opportunities, longing a past love, or missing the comfort of a caretaker. However, in William Wordsworth's (1770-1850) poem "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" (1807), the speaker's theme regards the "wealth " of "pleasure" found in the beauty of a memory that has the power to comfort the speaker. In the poem, the speaker speaks in a soliloquy to describe a memory permeated in his mind or"inward eye" (22).
When the pomengranate tree is not broken we see how beautiful the friendship between the boys is. In contrast when a the? pomengranate is crushed or when it no longer exists this symbolises the end of Amir and Hassan’s friendship. At the start of the film, the pomengranate is a symbol of the beautiful nature of Amir and Hassan’s friendship. Despite the elements of caste, the boys share happy times together and enjoy each other’s company.
They have a few differences as well. To a Skylark by Percy Shelley is about a man gazing longingly at a bird, wishing he could be as happy, as carefree, as the bird. He knows that the bird lacks human troubles, such as heartbreak and loneliness, and he wishes he could be more like that. Shelley asks the bird to teach him to be more joyful: “Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know; Such harmonious madness From thy lips would flow, The world should listen then as I am listening now.” (101-105) Shelley wishes that he could look at the world in the same gleeful way that a bird does. He wants to be as peaceful and exuberant as the bird.
"Mid-Term Break" is a very emotive poem in which Seamus Heaney reflects on the death of his little brother and explains what was going through his mind at that time. The poem's title suggests a holiday but this "break" does not happen for pleasant reasons. For most of the poem Heaney writes of people's differing reactions and at the end he is able to grieve honestly. My first opinion of this poem was that it would be a bright poem and a child’s thoughts and exaggerations of the time they get away from school. I first realised this was not the case as I read the first line, “I sat all morning in college sick bay” Immediately the line tells me that something is wrong as “sick bay” is were children usually end up when they are feeling unwell.
But his vies changes as the berries spoils. The hope had faded and he sees the truth that there if nothing in life if your a child or an adult is perfect. This reflects on his life now as an adult. He is disappointed at the end of the poem. We get a happy view at the begginig of the poem as it ‘late agugst’ which gives us the view of summer and summer time is a fun time for children.
“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.
Instead of representing a figure of authority and responsibility, Orsino sits and listens to his musicians playing to him, wailing about the changeable nature of love. The use of a simile now appears with ‘like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets’ talking of the music ‘breathing’ upon a bank of violets and then also ‘stealing and giving odour’. Orsino’s plan is not entirely successful, even though he grows tired of the music, he cannot escape thinking and mourning about his love. The music is not ‘so sweet’ as it once sounded to Orsino. The line is significant as it gives us the first glimpse into Orsino’s whimsical nature, enraptured and completely immersed in
However the failure of Hardy’s pilgrimage, similarly to Orpheus’, is inevitable, as Hardy is visiting the place in order to leave his courtship but by looking back at the hillside Hardy experiences the precious memory of his angelic wife Emma. Hardy also experiences the journey of reminiscing and how idealistic and romantic their relationship was, “Something that life will not be balked of”. The adjective ‘Fading’ suggests increasing distance and fading light and therefore the lessening importance of present reality. The word “Fading” also suggests the time f day being dusk, which has connotations of death. The words “drizzle…bedrenches” are negative onomatopoeias which present use of pathetic fallacy to suggest a sombre and melancholic mood to the poem.
Tintern Abbey Lines Written A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth is a romantic poem written in free verse that describes the impact and influence that nature has had on him. Romanticism marks a move away from the restraint and rules of society into the passion and sensibility of the individual and nature. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey is a true Romantic poem because it describes communion with nature and focuses on the development of the individual, while providing a psychological escape from unpleasant and mundane realities. Nature is the unifying theme in this poem. Wordsworth revisits the place that he has not seen in five years, and exclaims, “—Once again / Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, / Which on a wild secluded scene impress / Thoughts of a more deep seclusion” (lines 4-7).
The boy is overjoyed by the sight and decides to use the untouched beauty for his own pleasure by laying and playing in it. He sensually uses all senses to take the experience in, but, as he arises, he comes to the realization that he took the vulnerability of the nature for granted and has destroyed it. With great turmoil the poem sends the message that nature and any vulnerable thing in life (including poetry) should not be messed with because if it is not taken on with a gentle hand it may never be the same. Wordsworth’s counterparts in and before the Romantic Period wrote with a very professional format while Wordsworth uses simple terms so the average man can take something from his work. Therefore, if Wordsworth had conformed to the strict norms of literature at the time by changing and destroying his individual work, he would have lost the beauty and emotion in his free writing.