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    SONNET 116 | PARAPHRASE | | Let me not to the marriage of true minds | Let me not declare any reasons why two | | Admit impediments. Love is not love | True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love | | Which alters when it alteration finds‚ | Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances‚ | | Or bends with the remover to remove: | Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful: | | O no! it is an ever-fixed mark | Oh no! it is a lighthouse | |

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    Summeries For Class 9th 1. Daffodils William wordsworth’s passion for nature is well known. That’s way he is called the poet of nature. He is worshipper and ardent lover of nature. It was a creed for him. To him‚ nature is a teacher and preacher. When we go through his poem “ Daffodils” we come to know that he has presented before us the healthy‚ ennobling‚ purifying and enduring impact of nature on human beings. Once‚ when the poet was roaming the valleys and the hills happily. He was feeling

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    best teacher? 2. What did Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge use as subjects for their poetry? 3. According to Wordsworth‚ when does poetry “begin”? 4. Who was Dorothy‚ and what did she and Wordsworth do together? Part C. Pre-reading: “I Never Saw Daffodils So Beautiful” by Dorothy Wordsworth on page 535. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1. Who do you think the “we “represents in this journal account? 2. When did this experience occur? 3. What do Dorothy and the others see? 4. What

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    demonstrating forms of anti-romanticism‚ and negativity towards his own nose‚ while William Wordsworth leans toward a more idealistic approach by personifying non-living things and using romanticism to express deep‚ intense emotions towards the astonishing daffodils. Exploring William Carlos Williams‚ “Smell”‚ this poem clearly demonstrates a strong approach towards realism. Williams expresses this by speaking of a real life experience instead of an idealistic dream vision. Williams demonstrates

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    not but be gay‚ In such a jocund company" another example of diction that has a positive connotation his heart is now filled with happiness as he is accompanied by this positive and happy people. He is even using personification because he is the daffodils human characteristics that they are cheerful company like a human

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    After the scene of the Ceremony Offred wants to take something from the house as a “souvenir”‚ she wants “Something that will not be missed”(98). She finds “ In the wood at midnight‚ a magic flower. A withered daffodil‚ not one from the dried arrangement”(98). “[Offred] finds the daffodils‚ crisp at the edges where they’ve dried‚ limp towards the stems” (98). This

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    big aspect of Romanticism‚ William Wordsworth points out different perspectives of the new concept of individualism. “Golden daffodils… stars that shine and twinkle… and sparkling waves in glee” (4‚ 7-8‚ 14) are used to depict the basics of individualisms. Wordsworth uses these three nature examples because they are all tied together somehow‚ and that is liberation. Daffodils‚ stars‚ and waves very free‚ they not restraint like many other things in life. Before the Romantic era‚ lower classes were

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    1815. Setting and Background Information The poem recaptures a moment on April 15‚ 1802. When Wordsworth and his sister‚ Dorothy‚ were walking near Lake Ullswater in Grasmere‚ Cambria County‚ England‚ and came across a "long belt" of golden daffodils. Rhyme‚ Form & Meter "I wandered lonely as a Cloud" has a fairly simple form that fits its simple and folksy theme and language. The rhyme scheme is also simple: ABABCC. (Rhymed

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    Most of the time‚ kings requested to perform oracle bones divination to learn from spirits regarding the success of harvest‚ outcomes of battles‚ and schedule of sacrifices to spirits. For example‚ the King asked: “Will Di order rain sufficient for harvest?” (Eno 46). During earlier years of Shang Dynasty‚ the outcomes of harvests were more important to the people. Nevertheless‚ by the end of the Shang Dynasty‚ a large portion of divinations were performed to know the schedule and proper scarifications

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    grand scheme of things our lives are very small in comparison to the bigger picture. In the second stanza he is comparing our entire existence with a daffodil. “Esteems her seven days’ continuance‚ / To be perpetual.” (Lines 14 and 15). The daffodil believes that she will go on forever even though her life span is only seven days long. Like the daffodil in the poem‚ our society often focuses on our own lives and we thinks that it will last forever. Rudyard Kipling also uses excellent word choice

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