Form and meaning of The Daffodils by W.Wordsworth and Miracle on St.David’s Day by G.Clarke. Pre and Post C20th Poetry Comparison.
Caroline Piggott Compare and Contrast the language, Sep 2001 Form and meaning of The Daffodils by W.Wordsworth and Miracle on St.David's Day by G.Clarke. Pre and Post C20th Poetry Comparison. William Wordsworth wrote the poem "The Daffodils" in 1804, two years later after his experience with the Daffodils. The poem "Miracle on St. David's Day" was written by Gillian Clarke around 1980. Miracle on St. David's Day was written one hundred and seventy-six years after The Daffodils was. The poems are very similar in the way that they both look like poems, having a regular structure. In "Miracle on St. David's Day" each stanza apart from the last one has five lines that are all about the same length. In "The Daffodils" each stanza has six lines that are all about the same length. The poems are different in the way that "Miracle on St. David's Day" was written like a story, sentences starting in one stanza and finishing in another. Also this poem does not rhyme, it looks like a poem but sounds like prose. "The Daffodils" is written as a poem with a regular rhyming pattern. Line one and line three rhyme, line two and line four, and line five and six are a rhyming couplet. This is regular throughout the poem. Both poems are similar as they are true experiences of the writers, and they are written in Modern English. Also the poems are both narrative poems. William Wordsworth
Differences and Similarities Between Coleridge and Wordsworth Concerning People's Relationship to Nature
Differences and Similarities Between Coleridge and Wordsworth Concerning People's Relationship to Nature Although Wordsworth and Coleridge are both romantic poets, they describe nature in different ways. Coleridge underlines the tragic, supernatural and sublime aspect of nature, while Wordsworth uses anecdotes of everyday life and underlines the serene aspect of nature. In order to imply a connection between nature and the human mind, Wordsworth uses the technique of identification and comparison whereas Coleridge does the opposite in "The Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan". Both admire nature's healing strength and hope that their children will grow up in a natural environment instead of growing up in cities. For Wordsworth nature seems to sympathise with the love and suffering of the persona. The landscape is seen as an interior presence rather than an external scene. His idea is that emotions are reflected in the tranquillity of nature. On the contrary, Coleridge says that poetry is clearly distinguished from nature. Reading the poems of both Wordsworth and Coleridge, one immediately notes a difference in the common surroundings presented by Wordsworth and the bizarre creations of Coleridge. Thus they develop their individual attitudes towards life. I will look at differences and similarities concerning people's relationship to nature in poems by Coleridge and
How do poems 'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth and 'Miracle on St. David's Day' by Gillian Clarke, use the themes of daffodils to explore human emotions?
How do poems 'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth and 'Miracle on St. David's Day' by Gillian Clarke, use the themes of daffodils to explore human emotions? Each of the Wordsworth and Clarke poems show how the poets have been inspired to write about daffodils. In 'Miracle on St. David's Day', Gillian Clarke actually refers to Wordsworth's poem within her own. The poems however differ in structure and their responses to the daffodils are different. All of the poems use personification but the poems are written in contrasting style. William Wordsworth was born in England in 1770, Wordsworth attended Cambridge University and afterwards went on a walking tour of France and Switzerland. When war broke out in 1793 he returned to England, moving in with his sister Dorothy in Dorset. It was during this time he discovered his calling as a poet with a principal theme of the common man close to nature. In 1798 he was central figure in the advent of Romantic Poetry, together with Coleridge writing the Lyrical Ballads, which began with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" and ended with Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey". He spent a year in Germany, then settled down in Dove Cottage, Grasmere with his wife Mary Hutchison in 1802, where he wrote his poetic autobiography The Prelude and two other books of poems. He was selected poet laureate in 1843 and died in 1850. Gillian Clarke was born in
Demonstrate the persistence of Wordsworthian ideal of country folk, childhood and natural education in the two texts that you have chosen.
Demonstrate the persistence of Wordsworthian ideal of country folk, childhood and natural education in the two texts that you have chosen. Critical Essay by Rachel Gowland. Wordsworth, as a poet of the romantic era, had several themes, which contribute to this title. This essay will be looking at these themes and discovering whether they have any relevance in the texts studied. These are, the Secret Garden and Goodnight Mr Tom. The preference for rural life and its people was at the height of fashion at the time of Wordsworth. Social reformers such as Rousseau talked about the "noble savage" and the rustic idyll was an accepted theme for artistes and poets alike. While the social revolutions may have changed by the time the texts were written, the ideals are still continued to some degree. Wordsworth had many sympathies with the victims and vagrants that wandered in the cities and the countryside. Many of his short poems were portraits of simple rural people, intended to illustrate the nature of these folk and their basic wisdom. Poems such as Michael (1880) have the characters almost fused with their natural surroundings. In Michael, patience and tenderness are the key features of the old man's character. There is strength and a "natural affinity to the hills and fields in which he lived and worked." 1 The Secret garden is almost a glorification of rustic folk and
In your opinion, how successfully does Lyrical Ballads capture the hour of feeling?
Tutor Marked Assignment R Love, now an universal birth From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth, It is the hour of feeling In your opinion, how successfully does Lyrical Ballads capture "the hour of feeling"? Lyrical Ballads has been called a poetic revolution, the true beginning, (In British poetry) of the literary, philosophical and artistic movement known as "Romanticism". The Romantics were concerned with feeling. In his preface of the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth wrote that "all good poetry is a spontaneous overflow of feelings" The above passage is from Lines written at a small distance form my house whereby the poem very much centres on "it is the hour of feeling". In this poem Wordsworth wants his sister to experience the blessed pervasiveness of this "one moment" which fifty years of reason cannot substitute for, in which he finds himself connected to the earth and mankind through love. I shall use the underlined statement as the definition for "the hour of feeling" and imminently discuss the success of the poets in accomplishing this in the Lyrical Ballads. The Romantic Movement was a reaction to the classical literature of the Augustan age, which was classic, impersonal and formal, championing rationality as opposed to feelings and used a large number of literary clichés and overblown phrases. The readers of poetry in the
Analysing closely three or four poems which we have read, say what seems to you to be typical of 'Lyrical Ballads'
Laura Summers English Literature Analysing closely three or four poems which we have read, say what seems to you to be typical of 'Lyrical Ballads' The group title of the set of poems written by Wordsworth and Coleridge presents an interesting starting point of analysis. The phrase 'Lyrical Ballads' is a paradox as the genres of 'lyrics' and 'ballads' can be defined as in opposition to each other. A 'lyric' is 'a poem about feeling... addressed to the reader in a manner of private and intimate conversation'. A 'ballad' is 'a narrative poem from an anonymous point of view, often relating to characters from public or historical events, such as war.' Therefore the two genres are combined under the title 'Lyrical Ballads', signifying an unexpected and unusual style from Wordsworth and Coleridge. This is further evidenced by Wordsworth, who said the 'Lyrical Ballads' should be seen as 'an experiment', consisting of 'poems... materially different from those under the general approbation... present bestowed' and that they may be read by some with a 'common dislike'. One aspect of the style of 'Lyrical Ballads' that caused much contempt at the time of publication is the simple language, an important characteristic of the poems. Wordsworth tries to avoid the 'falsehood of description', instead preferring to record reality in ordinary language rather than attempting a poetic
Write about the importance of memory in Wordsworth's "Daffodils" and Clarke's "Miracle on St. David's Day".
Write about the importance of memory in Wordsworth's "Daffodils" and Clarke's "Miracle on St. David's Day" The first of the two poems, Wordsworth's "Daffodils" is about a man remembering that some daffodils cheered him up one day. The poem starts off with the person being described as a cloud and how he slowly joins a "host" of "golden" daffodils. But the reader does not know at first that this poem is actually a memory until further down in the poem. Throughout the poem Wordsworth refers back to the daffodils and makes a connection with other things like them such as stars. Wordsworth also depicts how the daffodils "dance". In the last verse the reader finally finds out that the poem is a recollection. Whilst the second of the two poems, "Miracle on St. David's Day" written by Gillian Clarke is about a mentally ill patient reciting Wordsworth's "Daffodils" in front of a crowd of other patients and daffodils. From the title "Miracle on St. David's Day" it is revealed to the reader what this poem is about. It is obvious that a miracle is the main point of the poem, meaning something holy yet unexpected. The poem starts off in a very positive setting "among the cedars and enormous oaks" but by the second verse the reader finds out that Clarke is, in reality, describing an Insane Asylum. The poet describes herself "reading poetry to the insane" as she does a "huge and
Discuss Wordsworth's and Coleridge's attitudes to nature in Their poetry with particular reference to Resolution and Independence (The Leech Gatherer) and This Lime Tree Bower my prison.
Discuss Wordsworth's and Coleridge's attitudes to nature in Their poetry with particular reference to Resolution and Independence (The Leech Gatherer) and This Lime Tree Bower my prison Coleridge and Wordsworth are both now referred to as Romantic poets, during the romanticism period there was a major movement of emphasis in the arts towards looking at the world and recognising the beauty of human's emotions and imaginations and the world in which we live. From the 18th century some saw imagination as a disease of which most poets suffered, for others imagination was the ability to remember or draw something that wasn't directly present. Coleridge speaks of the imagination as 'The distinguishing characteristic of man as a human being' (In his 'Essay of Education') Wordsworth defines imagination as the 'clearest insight, amplitude of mind, / an reason in her most exalted mood' in book fourteen of the prelude. One of the characteristics of Romanticism is exploring the relationship between nature and human life. Both Wordsworth and Coleridge focus's on this strongly in there poems. They examine nature and how it effects mans imagination and mind. For this they were highly criticised. They looked inside mans imagination rather than intellect. This was a concept others could not understand. Their work contrasted with the earlier 18th century poets of whom had a structures
William Wordsworth and Robert Frost - Views on nature.
To many people Nature is something of little thought, but when we take time to "stand back" and acknowledge it we can actually see its beauty. Until now a meadow or a tree in a forest to me, was little more than something of everyday life. Now having come to realise the power and force it has upon mans emotions and actions, I realised the thoughts of other people when studying the work of William Wordsworth and Robert Frost. Both poets see Nature in different ways although there are some aspects of the subject which are clearly the same. This view is such a vast subject which is an always changing thing. From the changing seasons to the day- to- day weather Nature never ceases to amaze. For both poets Nature brings the same thing, yet in very different ways. For Robert Frost, the simple scene of a wood (forest) filling slowly up with snow. As for Wordsworth the scene is very much a more vibrant picture as he describes the daffodils in their 'sprightly dance'. To you or me, to see these things is just something that happens and we don't notice it. In today's society such events are not even acknowledged, and there fore people don't normally take the time to experience the occasion. We realise that both Wordsworth and Frost where alone as Wordsworth states 'I wandered lonely' and Frost states-: 'Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village
Explore the connections and differences between 'Miracle on St. David's Day' and 'Daffodils'.
Explore the connections and differences between 'Miracle on St. David's Day' and 'Daffodils' 'Daffodils' was written by William Wordsworth approximately a century before 'Miracle on St. David's Day' was written by Gillian Clarke. Due to this, the poems differ greatly in their style and language. Observing the poems at first glance, it is obvious that they also contrast in content, however at greater depth, the connections between them are made obvious. In this essay, I will be discussing the connections and differences between the two poems. The daffodil is the national symbol of Wales; it represents hope, joy and celebration. Both of the poets make this markedly palpable using this as a theme for their poems. In 'Miracle on St. David's Day' daffodils are mentioned at the beginning and end of the poem, carrying significance as it is they that remind the '...big, dumb labouring man...' of a time when he had something to say. The man speaks for the first time in forty years, reciting the poem 'Daffodils' implying that this is what he has to say: the joy and hope evoked in him by both the daffodils that he sees and the poem 'Daffodils'. Wordsworth is less subtle is his regard of daffodils, his poem is more conspicuous in portraying the '...fluttering...dancing...jocund...' daffodils as they fill his heart with pleasure and this image of the daffodils is the same throughout