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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
Native Moments " Native moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now," Leaves of Grass (Book IV. Children of Adam.) 1860 Night on the Prairies " Night on the prairies," Leaves of Grass (Book XXX. Whispers of Heavenly Death) No Labor-Saving Machine " No labor-saving machine," Leaves of Grass (Book V. Calamus) Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
The height of the joy, the moment when the world can improve no further, is both the end of joy and the beginning of melancholy. A climax implies a dénouement, and 'bursting Joy's grape' involves both the experience of ultimate satisfaction, with the powerful image of the juice bursting forth from a burst grape, and the beginning of a decline ...
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 By the Seashore, Isle of Man 1833 "Why stand we gazing on the sparkling Brine," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Isle of Man 1833 "A youth too certain of his power to wade" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong.Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
His poetry achieves a sense of cohesive structure and beauty through the internal patterns of sound, diction, specific word choice, and effect of association. [50] The poem uses many of the literary techniques associated with the pastoral elegy, a meditative lyric genre derived from the poetic tradition of Greek and Roman antiquity.
Another interpretation of the poem is a song entitled "Time" by Mark Masri (2009). [10] In 2003, the same section of the poem was chosen for a memorial in Grosvenor Square, London, dedicated to British victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. [11] The poem is also used as the closing of the 2013 novel Child of Time, by Bob Johnson.
As the poem ends, the trance caused by the nightingale is broken and the narrator is left wondering if it was a real vision or just a dream. [24] The poem's reliance on the process of sleeping is common to Keats's poems, and "Ode to a Nightingale" shares many of the same themes as Keats' Sleep and Poetry and Eve of St. Agnes. This further ...