William Wordsworth Syntactic And Semantic Features

In Wordsworth's poem, he used syntax and diction to show how the flowers changed his once depressed lonely mood to positive and grateful. While in Muir's essay, he also uses diction to tell his story of finding calypso and his overwhelming sense of happiness when he finally sat by the beautiful flower.

The study of any poem often begins with its imagery. Being the centralized idea behind the power of poetry, imagery isn’t always there to just give a mental picture when reading the poem, but has other purposes. Imagery can speak to the five senses using figurative language as well as help create a specific emotion that the author is trying to infuse within the poem. It helps convey a complete human experience a very minimal amount of words. In this group of poems the author uses imagery to show that humanity is characterized as lost, sorrowful and regretful, but nature is untainted by being free of mistakes and flaws and by taking time to take in its attributes it can help humans have a sense of peace, purity, and joy, as well as a sense of

In the poem there is also an idea of man verses nature, this relates to the survival of the fittest. John Foulcher shows this through the use of first person point of view. For example in the second stanza “Then above me the sound drops” this again possesses sensory imagery creating a deeper human aura throughout the poem. Foulcher further uses a human aura to build a sense of natural imagery for example in the last stanza : “I pick up these twigs and leave them” adding closure

Wordsworth demonstrates his use of tone and syntax in the following stanza, “Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance.” The tone of the stanza is joyful because he is happy when he talks about how beautiful the daffodils are. This shows how his relationship with nature is positive since he is happy when watching the daffodils. Wordsworth uses traditional syntax in this stanza. He uses several phrases divided by commas to describe the daffodils and their movements. This gives the stanza a playful pace which again expresses that his relationship with nature is happy and

Through some of his toughest times he was out there seeking adventure. “I wandered 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.” Before Wordsworth saw the field of daffodils he was lonely and depressed. But with the beauty of nature it helped to transform his mood for the better. “For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon my inward eye.” “And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” Furthermore, When Wordsworth is alone lying on his sofa, a feeling of bored and sadness rush over him. But when the daffodils come to his mind he is able to imagine his adventure with them, and that brings him joy and happiness.

In the first stanza he beautifully describes what it looks like outside. He states that the sun is bright, he personifies the wind describing it stirring through the grass. A beautiful simile is used “the river flows like a stream of glass”. He paints a feel good scene but then he goes on to describe the bird in the second stanza.

Unlike society, Wordsworth does not see nature as a commodity. The verse "Little we see in Nature that is ours" (3), shows that coexisting is the relationship envisioned. This relationship appears to be at the mercy of mankind because of the vulnerable way nature is described. The verse "This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon" (5), gives the vision of a woman exposed to the heavens. In addition, the phrase "sleeping flowers"(7) might also describe how nature is being overrun unknowingly.

In the same way that every person has a different personality, every poem has its own charm. Each poem is special in its own way. For example a poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” (p.780) by Sara Teasdale is about nature and humanity. A poem “Sonnet XXX of Fatal Interview”(p.814), the main topic is love. These poems are different from each other, like different personalities, which I am going to talk about.

The speaker uses the bird and the dog to portray these questions and, in turn, the answers. It is not until the last line of the last stanza that the speaker refers to himself. The use of denotation throughout the poem, in words such as quavering, ponderous, and meticulous reflect the thoughtful diction, similar as in the other poem. The use of personification, represented in lines: 8-9, 10, and 14, shows how the speaker is really trying to connect the characteristics of non-human objects and how they fit in with nature to the world the speaker lives in and where he fits into

In the poem, “To Paint a Water Lily”, the speaker in the poem looks over, and analyzes the intricate angles of nature by elucidating the obstacles he faces as an artist when in the process of capturing its essence on a canvas. When the speaker looks at the scene laying before him, he sees a strikingly vibrant community of nonstop movement and activity, veiled by the dense stillness of the pond water that the lilies drift over. As an artist, he knows that painting the water lily, and doing it artistic justice would require far more than just the simplicity of a depiction of just the plant by itself; he must somehow capture the very essence of the buzzing and teeming life surrounding the water lily. The intensity of the tone at which the speaker uses to describe this ambience of the breathtaking environment, and the appreciation he feels for the stunning intricacy of nature is shown through the use of tone, language, imagery, diction, and figurative languages. The speaker starts off by introducing the water lily not as the initial subject itself, but as a platform for the life buzzing around it. He describes “a green level of lily leaves” that “roofs the pond’s chamber and paves the flies’ furious arena”, to put in different words, he states that it is a cover for the activity above, and a podium for the life above the water. The description being presented of the pond shows the speaker’s viewpoint of nature as a conglomerate being with layers that extend far beyond its seemingly idle and calm surface. The descriptive language used by the speaker to characterize the lily’s leaves, shown with alliteration and ethereal imagery, also reflects upon the speaker’s appreciation for the beauty of nature. The speaker also characterizes nature by conveying it as a “lady” with “two minds,” namely those that abide below or above the pond’s surface level. “Study these,” the speaker takes note to himself (and by extension, the audience), and only then can one evolve their mind to develop a true and profound understanding of the essence of nature. Though the speaker’s aim was to delineate a water lily in a painting, he cannot help but direct his attention to the wide display of sights and sounds that also contributed greatly

In "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Wordsworth uses imagination to help him and others to live in the physical world peacefully. He recalls playing in Tintern Abbey, a forest nearby there and played in it when he was young. Now he comes back for different reasons. He escapes the world which is individualism and goes to the forest to get away from all the burden. He tells his young sister that she can always come here to get away from her problems as well. In the poem, Wordsworth uses nature to solve problems in life.

Wordsworth continues to relay his experience in nature as he expounds upon the affiliation between the daffodils and another natural element. Applying simile, the poet connects the flowers to the stars, "Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way" (7-8). A mental picture of infinite flowers is created, while "shine" and "twinkle" produce an image of light. Wordsworth uses the light imagery to link the two aspects of nature; the luminous stars of the night and "golden" daffodils of the day. The link shows the reader the connection the poet sees in different facets of nature. The second stanza continues the description of the dance "Ten thousand saw I at a glance, / Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" (12). The image created is of large numbers of flowers moving in unison and expresses the harmony the poet finds in nature. The usage of "sprightly" makes another reference to light, but in the sense of movement and weight as "cloud" and "floats" were utilized in the first stanza. Diction in the second stanza provides the reader with a multi-dimensional prospective of Wordsworth's imagery by giving the images action, feeling and weight.

"Tintern Abbey" is a combination of all Wordsworth's feelings about his past and his love of nature. We consider the first two lines of the poem, "Five years have

One other criterion, used by Wordsworth to dignify the purpose of this poem is external images. In the first and last stanzas, he uses words to create a visualization of how she is in the time period of their relationship. For example, “A dancing shape, an image gay, / To haunt, to startle, and waylay” (9- 10) which

Where Wordsworth focused too on love and nature at first, he then took on more spiritual subjects. Further, if we assume that Wordsworth’s imitation of “The Retreat” was intentional, then Vaughan may have even been a poetic model (in some sense) for Wordsworth later in life. True, Wordsworth is not generally considered a religious poet; he would never have originally considered Vaughan a model because of the latter’s extreme religiosity. Yet if these two poems don’t echo in godly gestures per se, they do in a more spiritual sense—and perhaps Wordsworth, as a man confronted with his own mortality, found Vaughan’s treatise on the spirit’s immortality a sympathetic sentiment. Thus by comparing the two, we also might better understand Wordsworth’s poetic progression.