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    poem that describes the beauty of nature and how it can inspire our lives. Wordsworth uses images to describe the scene to the reader‚ like a painting on a canvas; that explains vividly how the poet saw it. An example of the creativity is how the daffodils presented an almost human quality in the way they resemble dancers dancing in unison as if presenting a show. At the end of every alternate line of the poem there is a rhyming word‚ giving the poem both continuity and a sense of rhythm throughout

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    Putting them side by side‚ the reader can begin to realize how poets use techniques unique to them in order to send their message and affect emotions. “So‚ We’ll Go No More a-Roving” might cause someone to experience sorrow after reading it. While “Daffodils” has the potential to cheer the reader up and fill them with joy. Each poem paints a picture in people’s mind. Even though the images are very different from each other‚ both pieces of writing are exemplary works of art. “In my view a good poem

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    Brink of eternity Eternity has three aspects. It has the fear of the unknown when people feel they are not prepared to enter the next world. It has the hope of the unknown if people cannot bear the tribulations of life anymore. Lastly‚ it has the release of the unknown when people are well prepared to meet their physical death and go to the next world. Eternity is just a prayer away. In desperate hope the narrator went and searched for the spiritual door of eternity in all the corners of his room

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    is "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‚" by William Wordsworth. This poem is written from the first person view of the person lying on a couch in the house‚ using a pleasant and calming tone. The person pictures two main scenes: (1) nature with trees‚ daffodils‚ and hills‚ and (2) space with stars and the Milky Way. William Wordsworth uses figurative language such as personification through out the whole poem to bring the nouns to life. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" shows how people can doze off easily

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    (5-6) This view of divination‚ as a system of thinking and reasoning‚ is closely related to the rules that govern a mathematicians work. As author Douglas Hofstadter writes "proofs are demonstrations within fixed systems of propositions‚" similarly‚ divination sessions result in conclusions stemming from a series of codified techniques. (Hofstadter 26) Altering any of these standardized methods

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    shape of a giant egg. You discover a field of daffodils that is flowing in motion like a grand "dance" full of elegance. This area is full of sublime that can only be fully appreciated by a poet. William Wordsworth has been to this place and it was the subject of his poem "I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud." He entered a state of tranquility when he visited here and writes this proficient piece of poetry when he has recollections about the daffodils. This poem questions the actual connection of

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    field of daffodils. “When all at once I saw a crowd‚ A host‚ of golden daffodils; Beside the lake‚ beneath the trees‚ Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” Wordsworth is describing how he first found the daffodils‚ which are beside the lake. He took his time to realize their movements in the breeze. “For oft‚ when on my couch I lie‚ In vacant or in pensive mood‚ They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills‚ And dances with the daffodils.” In the

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    golden daffodils" (line 4). Th golden daffodils symbolizes something of great value. Daffodils are delicate flowers and the fact that they were "fluttering and dancing in the breeze" (line 6) illustrates that the breeze was soft zephyr‚ not a harsh gale to bruise and damage. This adds to the imagery of picture perfect day. The daffodils seem to "shine and twinkle like the stars on the Milky Way" as they sway and dance in a never-ending line along the water’s edge. He moved the daffodils out of

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    her happy‚ Wordsworth finds conclusive happiness in the inanimate things of nature. Thinking back to a time of complete content‚ Wordsworth describes daffodils "tossing their heads in sprightly dance” (12). In this particular line of the poem‚ Wordsworth uses personification to describe the daffodils in an upbeat demeanor. He knows that the daffodils and things of nature will stay with him constantly through his life. Therefore‚ through the simile “continuous as the stars that shine” (7)‚ Wordsworth

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    Throughout Wordsworth poems‚ “my heart leaps for joy and” I wandered as lonely as a cloud” he displays a very deep‚ spiritual and emotional connection with nature. The poems are focused on the natural beauty of the ‘rainbow’ and ‘daffodils’. In both poems he reveals a personal affinity with nature. This is evident through the interplay of poetic techniques throughout both poems. Living most of his life in rural England‚ Wordsworth was very much against the Industrialisation and the French Revolution

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