Comparing Diction And Syntax In I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

Muir creatively informs the reader just how much the main character truly loves nature. The same marvel and beauty is shared in the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” After a long climb over a high hill he finds his reward a valley shining with a huge field of daffodils. “Besides the lakes, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” As Wordsworth explains the scene. As each scene pops out of the poem, a new addition to the painting in your mind appears each time. The painting may vary from person to person, but I believe the same sense of awe is present with every mind. The portions cited are just the beginning of these two works; enough to splash your mind with colors and emotions, but later parts are what truly makes them worth reading.

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a poem that was written by William Wordsworth in 1804. The main theme within it is nature brings feelings of happiness and satisfaction. This theme can be seen within lines seventeen and eighteen. “I gazed—and gazed—but little thought / What wealth the show to me had brought:” (Wordsworth). This is the speaker of the poem stating that when first observing the daffodils, he did not understand how it was significant until he was at home and thinking too hard and they made him

The natural world has a rhythm that ebbs and flows; it is this rhythm that all of nature follows. It is the natural order of life. It is where when left to itself, life finds its balance. The beauty of nature is all around us, and yet; we are unaware, too caught up in the rush of day to day living that we forget to look at what is right there in front of us. The pressures of society, friends and family, paying the bills, work, school, news events, the harshness of the world; we fail to see the softness, peace, beauty and the balance of nature. It is in nature where we find our true selves, our inner peace, our inner voice, our balance.

Further more, famous writers Thoreau and Emerson emphasize the idea of solitude with nature and how living in nature can help one have “maximum brain function” and many other desirable attributes. They also believe that modern day technology has hindered people's ability to be one with nature and to communicate with others. This summer, my dad challenged my cousins and me to get off our electronics and try something new. In the middle of July, my dad and my uncle took my cousins and me to the redwood forests of California to spend a week camping. As that week continued, we partook in many activities, ranging from swimming in the lake, to sitting around a fire at night telling stories to one another. During this time, I was very relaxed and stress free, not worrying about anything and my only concern was spending quality time with my family. In Walden, written by Thoreau, he writes that “[t]ime is but a stream I go fishing in,” (7). As time went by during that week, we did not track the time as often as we usually do, we did not rush to finish certain tasks, and we did not need

In the book Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard, the thematic idea is the serenity of the nature. In the nature world, serenity provides people a peace of mind and a sense of security. Passing through various stories, which includes “Teaching a stone to talk”, “Total Eclipse”, and “Sojourner”, the thematic idea serenity of nature strongly represents the feelings that the author wants to express. The peaceful nature which appeals to me into the perspective of the author.

While discussing Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, we attempted to address an important challenge -- Is the close observation and description of nature merely an idle thing for people in today's world? It could be suggested that nature writing and the close enjoyment of natural environments is merely "recreational" and not intellectually, economically, or politically worthy of our efforts. Perhaps this activity has "spiritual value" or gives us a "sense of peace." But does it really have anything to do with the way we live in the world today? It seems to me that this question is central to the whole course of study and that we

Today I awoke at the early hours of dawn. Upon stepping out of my tent, I was taken back at the beautiful scenery that lies at my very own feet. The nature of Walden Pond is a blessing to one’s eye. The landscape surrounding me is full of massive trees and innocent wildlife. The smell of the fresh morning air is soothing to one’s soul. As I walk from my tent to the edge of the pond, I can feel the morning dew beneath my feet and see drops of it tricking down the plants around me. Standing by the pond, I can see the sun rising, its rays reflecting off the water making it sparkle. I enjoy relaxing on the bank watching the sunrise and seeing the animals interact with one another; it one of the many luxuries of being encompassed by nature. The

“Finding Ourselves in Nature” was about how nature is beautiful when it has not been tampered with a lot. Nature is the last of the “real world”. We talked about how there is only so much nature and how we need to preserve it, respect it, take care of it and most of all we don’t need to change it. Nature is beautiful the way it is. I doesn’t need need to be changed or messed with. Linda Hogan once said, “how often i’ve wanted to escape to a wilderness where a human hand has not bed in everything”. Have you ever thought about that? If you could go to a nice quiet place where it is just you and nature, would you go? Sometimes we get in a big hurry and don’t realize how beautiful our surroundings are.

Nature has long been the focus of many an author's work, whether it is expressed through poetry, short stories, or any other type of literary creation. Authors have been given an endless supply of pictures and descriptions because of nature's infinite splendor that can be vividly reproduced through words. It is because of this fact that often a reader is faced with two different approaches to the way nature is portrayed. Some authors tend to look at nature from a more extensive perspective as in William Wordsworth's "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud." While some authors tend to focus more on individual aspects of nature and are able to captivate the reader with their intimate portrayals of

William Wordsworth and John Muir not only through the diction , vocabulary, and syntax, but also through the impact of tone, and mood, and while both authors express their relationship in different ways there is still the essence of them impact on the audience. Wordsworth and Muir express their deep connection and love with nature using similes and hyperboles to show the reader how much nature had affected their lives. They stretched in never-ending line It is very obvious that in the story "I Wandered Lonely as the Clouds" he feels as if the stars never ended in the sky. “The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis, he saw the rarest and most beautiful flower as he

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home” (Muir 1). Spending time in the wild, without another human soul in sight, is where one can lose and then find himself. Sitting on a rock in the middle of a desert, mountain, rain forest, or lake, and simply meditating, this is where one can see more than the obvious. Beyond that, this is where one can get in touch with his animal side, and in doing so, sometimes one will no longer be satisfied with the trappings of civilization; pollution of the mind, soul, and earth, media, social norms, philosophers with agendas, and an incredible amount of rules. Walt Whitman must have spent many hours sitting on rocks. An imagist,

The speaker of this poem is tired of listening about lectures on things of nature; it makes them feel morally ill. The speaker would rather go out and experience the phenomena of nature, because it is not scientific and statistic, but rather it is beautiful, imaginative, mystical, and intuitive. The true way to understand nature is not by fact filled lectures, but rather by experiencing the beauty of it hands on. It is the only way to get the fully immersed in the imperfect perfections of life.

I Wander Lonely As a Cloud by William Wordsworth is a poem about a beautiful area near a bay that is full of golden daffodils. The author tells the story from memory, and thinks about this place from their couch, and it brings them joy. Although the poem is great from the surface, there is so much more going on inside of it. There are forms, different kinds of language, imagery, themes and a setting that are all hidden within the poem. Through this analysis I will be bringing these different aspects to light.

When a person is feeling lost and refuses to express emotion they can lose themselves in nature and release emotion. Many people find peace in nature and find it easier to release stress due to nature’s relaxing and calming qualities. This poem creates a short yet sweet getaway for a reader who is unresolved or feeling unpleasant emotions.

Nature is inspiring and sometimes we forget the healing it brings to the soul. The novels "Kusamakura" and "Narrow Road to the Interior" deal in great part with Zen Buddhism, likewise with nature and how is it part of everyday life. Even though is difficult to achieve complete peacefulness, nature helps us step outside our shells, our drama, our mental dilemmas and become capable of appreciating life on life terms. Nature is in all our surroundings, it even appears in dreams and both novels do a great job captivating natures beauty in poems. Some of these poems are haiku poems that contain originally 17 syllables. They are short poems that capture a big piece of beauty, of nature through time.