Nurul H Sading
Poetry Class A
Jan 7th, 2013
Analysis poetry
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Daffodils – William
Wordsworth
1. Introduction
The Daffodils poem is also known by ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'. The
words’ poem had written by William Wordsworth in 1804. It published in 1815 in
'Collected Poems' contains six lines in four stanzas. William Wordsworth is a
well-known romantic poet who believed in conveying simple and creative
expressions through his poems. He had quoted, "Poetry is the spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in
tranquility". Therefore, Daffodils is one of the most popular poems of the
Romantic Age, unfolding the poet's excitement, love and praise for a field
blossoming with daffodils.
William Wordsworth wrote Daffodils on a stormy day in spring, while
walking along with his sister Dorothy near Ullswater Lake, in England. He
imagined that the daffodils were dancing and invoking him to join and enjoy the
breezy nature of the fields. Dorothy Wordsworth, the younger sister of William
Wordsworth, found the poem so interesting that she took 'Daffodils' as the
subject for her journal.
The
Author:
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
He was born on the 7 April 1770
Cockermouth, Cumberland.
Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he
published a sonnet in The
European Magazine. That
same year he began attending St John's College, Cambridge, and received his B.A. degree in 1791. William Wordsworth died on 23 April 1850, and was buried at St. Oswald's church in Grasmere. His widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical
"poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth)
William Wordsworth was one of the major poets of his time honored as England's
Poet Laureate. He was a nature poet who helped to coin the term 'Romanticism'
in English Literature along with I.A.Richards in 1798, by the publication of
'Lyrical Ballads'. Some of the major works of William Wordsworth are:
- Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)
- Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, We are Seven, Simon Lee,
Lines Written in Early Spring
- Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems Volume 1
(1800) - Lucy Gray, Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, She Dwelt Among
the Untrodden Ways, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
- Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) - Ode:
Intimations of Immortality, Daffodils, Resolution and Independence,
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, The World is Too Much With Us
(http://www.buzzle.com/articles/analysis-of-daffodils-by-william-wordsworth.html)
2. Theoretical bases
Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of the consonant on the first stressed
sound of a word. This often appears as successive words starting with the same
letter, however, not all letters are pronounced the same way and true alliteration in poetry replicates the stressed
syllable. Sometimes the stressed syllable will be the second or third syllable
of the word, but is rarely, if never, the final syllable.
The sequencing of words with repeated syllables provides
both structure and rhythm. Alliteration in poetry has both a visual and an
aural function. The repeated sounds allow the syllable to amplify as each word
is pronounced. This is used to emphasize the beauty of the language being used.
The
function of alliteration in poetry is to provide an alternative rhythm or
meter to the poem. It provides another option for the poet when
considering how he or she should compose the latest poem.
Other options include changing meter, rhyming and free verse. Alliteration in poetry has a rich tradition in English and formed the
bedrock of pre-1066 English poetic forms.Alliteration does not affect the theme or content
of the poem.
3. Discussion
"Daffodils" (1804)
I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That
floats on high o'er vales and hills,
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.
Continuous
as the stars that shine
And twinkle
on the Milky Way,
They
stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the
margin of a bay:
Ten thousand
saw I at a glance,
Tossing their
heads in sprightly dance.
The waves
beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but
be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I
gazed -- and gazed --
but little thought
What wealth the show to
me had brought:
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.
The
underline letters on that poem had shown the alliteration of each stanza. It is
beginning by consonant and it is on the first word.
4. Conclusion
This poem was created by William Wordsworth. He was one of the major poets of his time honored as
England's Poet Laureate. He made this poem by Imagineering about daffodils in
the spring season. The authors thought all
about the happiness and he wrote it by this poem. When we read this poem, we
also make our imagination how happiness if we were like daffodils “Fluttering
and dancing in the breeze”. Analyzing with Alliteration by formal approach
could make me understood about the repetition of the consonant. The function of alliteration in poetry is to provide an alternative rhythm or
meter to the poem. It provides another option for the poet when
considering how he or she should compose the latest poem
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Gifts – James
Thomson
1. Introduction
According
to this poem, this was made by the deepest feel love by Thomson for his special
one, he made by comparing with the other terms. Thus, when we read this poem,
we also like brought into this poem stanza by stanza. And end by his statement
with aesthetic language that asserts his meaning for this poem. He wrote this
poem in 1834.
Biography of James Thomson
James Thomson was born in Ednam
in Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700. At Edinburgh Thomson had became
member of the Grotesque Club, a literary group, he met his lifelong friend
David Mallet. Later than he successful to publication of some of his poems in
the ‘’Edinburgh Miscellany’’ Thomson followed Mallet to London in February 1725
in an effort to publish his verse.
In London, Thomson met the great
English poets of the day including Richard Savage, Aaron Hill and Alexander
Pope. ‘Winter’ poem was first in print in 1726 by John Millian, with a second
edition being released (with revisions, additions and a preface) soon after the
same year.
In later years,
Thomson lived in Richmond upon Thames and it was there that he wrote his final
work The Castle of Indolence, which was published just before his untimely
death on August 27, 1748. Then, Johnson
writes about Thomson's death, "by taking cold on the water between London
and Kew, he caught a disorder, which, with some careless exasperation, ended in
a fever that put end to his life"
2. Theoretical
based
Rhyme
(sometimes spelt rime) is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and
is most often used in poetry and songs. (Wikipedia.org)
The function of rhyme in poetry is
to establish structure while creating a pleasant or even beautiful symmetry
among a poem’s verses. In the ages before the written word, rhyme also assisted with memorization, a
role it still performs today. Not all poems rhyme, and not all rhymes are poetry; rhyme is also employed in songwriting and
advertising copy, for example. The use of rhyme in poetry,
however, is the most common application of both, learned by most people while
they are still children. To many people, in fact, any rhyme is a poem and vice versa.
3. Discussion
Gifts rhyme
GIVE a man a horse he can ride, a
Give a man a boat he can sail; b
And his rank and wealth, his strength and health, c
On sea nor shore shall fail. b
Give a man a pipe he can smoke, a
Give a man a book he can read: b
And his home is bright with a calm delight, c
Though the room be poor indeed. b
Give a man a girl he can love, a
As I, O my love, love thee; a
And his heart is great with the pulse of Fate, a
At home, on land, on sea. b
James Thomson
On the first and second
verse, both of them have the same rhyme. But on the last verse, the rhyme has
chance. This poem is being structural because of the rhyme or even has
beautiful verses.
4. Conclusion
James Thomson was born in Ednam in
Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700. After
the successful publication of some of his poems in the ‘’Edinburgh Miscellany’’
Thomson followed Mallet to London in February 1725 in an effort to publish his verse. In London, Thomson met
the great English poets of the day including Richard Savage, Aaron Hill and
Alexander Pope.
Rhyme
(sometimes spelt rime) is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and
is most often used in poetry and songs. The function of rhyme in poetry is
to establish structure while creating a pleasant or even beautiful symmetry
among a poem’s verses.
On the first and second verse, both of them have the same rhyme. But on
the last verse, the rhyme has chance. This poem is being structural because of
the rhyme or even has beautiful verses.
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