" This opening sets the tone for the rest of the poem, conveying a sense of melancholy and nostalgia. The poet observes the tree as a symbol of natural beauty and simplicity in contrast
Odysseus (P.567) This story illustrates how a Greek leader by name Odysseus and his men entered the cave finding food and drink to help themselves with but happened that they fell asleep. And Cyclops, whose other name is Polyphemus, joined them in the cave, he lead his flock sheep in the cave and rolled out a big stone against the mouth of the case which was close to the entrance. Therefore, seeing Odysseus, and his men asleep in the cave, he became angry and grabbed two of the men, crushed them to the rocks and ate them, and later he fell asleep. Odysseus seeing that act of Cyclops couldn’t do anything since Cyclops was the only strongest people that rolled out the stone from the cave.
Though assigned books in English class are not always books on my must-read list, Into the Wild was a winter reading assignment with a captivating main character, Chris McCandless. After winter break, Room 7304 discussions revolved around if Chris McCandless was “great,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s definition. As the class majority believed McCandless was heartless and ridiculous and suicidal, I couldn’t help but believe in his “greatness.” If I could meet Chris McCandless, American hiker and itinerant traveler destined to reach the Alaskan wilderness, I would ask him how was he able to block out all the societal influences, even during high school. How was McCandless able to be this strong, independent thinker without being the black sheep and
I love all the metaphors he made in this poem such as the ladder to heaven (apple-picking requires a level which Robert Frost was referring it to the ladder to heaven) and the seasonal interpretation (winter is death and spring is rebirth) that connects to the natural process of decaying and
Wordsworth and Muir express their fascination with nature using imagery and mood. In “Calypso Borealis”, John Muir states that he finds himself “glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion” (Muir). The words “boundless profusion” appeals to the sense of sight and helps us imagine the scene and all the bountiful natural beauty of the place. The image shows Muir’s relationship with nature because it demonstrates his overwhelming, nearly spiritual, experience with nature. In the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”,
A light, simple, and appreciative mind is what he starts off as. Showing how closely he pays attention to the small details of the Earth, and the beauty he sees in nature, she allows us to build him a personality. After all of the events explained previously in the essay, he changes. One does not only see that on a physical level, but on an emotional one as well. “For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever.
In exemplifying this theme, he uses a scene of water, stating, “Whose streams of brightening purple rush, / Fired with a new and livelier blush, / While all their burden of decay / The ebbing current steals away” (ll. 11-4). The flowing water depicted in this scene is slowed by the debris and sediment which accumulate along its bottom and sides. Because of this “burden of decay”, the water’s life does not fulfill its potential and starts to become stagnant. However, the sunset’s colorful reflection on the water’s surface as well as the persistent current are exemplary of God’s spirit and refreshing powers within nature.
The poem, written by Sara Teasdale, was written as a response to World War I. The poem’s main theme is the idea that nature will always outlast humanity.
In the poem “The World Is Too Much with Us”, William Wordsworth seems to be expressing his discontentment with the path society is taking away from the beautiful necessities of nature as it veers into an industrial era. Through the use of specially crafted structure, precise diction, and various allusions, Wordsworth displays his moral disagreement with the new path based on the tragedy of ignoring the tranquil state of humanity present when one is in association with nature. The use of contradictory diction by Wordsworth helps display the extreme variation he sees between the enemy of industry and the ally of nature (Marrero). The phrases “late and soon” and “getting and spending” make it seem as though humanity has been living its life amiss for some time as the focus is on self- indulgence through goods (Wordsworth line 2).
Wordsworth’s connection with nature is made all the more clearer to him after he is returning here to Tintern Abbey, but it is also reaffirming because of the growing industrialism of the time and the fear that Wordsworth was probably feeling for nature, and rightfully so. From Jerry Smith, “The poem may be regarded as an essay in verse, and one of the finest achievements of a ‘feeling intellect’.” (Smith) What Smith means here is that Wordsworth displays how he cares for Nature and through his words he can be seen sitting atop a hill looking down upon everything and just being. A poet sitting in the grass and being.
The main message of the poem is made by telling the reader to “expect nothing” from the world but become a stranger to sameness by expressing oneself. A person can be content when he/she does not anticipate that the world owes him/her anything. The second stanza starts off by saying, “[w]ish for nothing larger [t]han your own small heart” (10,11). A person must not be something that he/she truly is not. In order to achieve one’s calling, a person must look to what he/she has been given and use it, therefore being an individual calls for a person to connect to his/her own heart.
Wordsworth, 2/28 (8) In “The World is Too Much with Us” William Wordsmith see the world of industrial revolution as distancing itself from nature. William criticizes this first world of industrial revolution because it is a world that has fully sunk into materialism. William see that this world is no longer natural as it should have been. William is concerned that the world is too overwhelming.
At first glance, the two poems seem alike, with many parallels corresponding to the importance of nature and its impact on human beings. Although both poems have different tonal approaches, they both come to the same conclusion that nature is a necessity to all human beings. Wordsworth’s livid tone in “The World is Too Much with us” presents his true feelings towards the materialistic ideals during the Industrialization period whereas “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is more light and simple. Wordsworth begins his poem “The World is Too Much with us” by mentioning that humans are always “getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; little we see in Nature that is ours” (Lines 2-3).
Tone Before creating his theme, William Wordsworth crafts a tone that shifts from frustration to anger. To establish his tone, Wordsworth applies two details in the poem. In line 1 of the poem, the speaker states, “The world is too much with us; late and soon”(ln. 1). The speaker feels an infuriating sense because we are too caught up with materialism in the world. It has been a problem of the past and will continue to be a problem in the future as long as we keep giving ourselves to earthly acts.
“Report to Wordsworth” by Boey Kim Cheng and “Lament” by Gillian Clarke are the two poems I am exploring in this essay, specifically on how the common theme of human destruction of nature is presented. In “Report to Wordsworth”, Cheng explores the damage of nature caused by humans and man’s reckless attitude towards this. In “Lament”, the idea of the damage of oceans from the Gulf War is explored. In “Report to Wordsworth”, Boey Kim Cheng explores the theme of human destruction of nature as a response to William Wordsworth, an romantic poet who celebrated nature’s beauty in his poetry.
