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“Mother to Son” develops a sense of happiness and determination. As Hughes explains that the mother endures trials and tribulations throughout the poem, we find that she continues to persevere, setting a wonderful example for her son. In contrast, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” uses a tone which is somewhat different to “Mother to Son.” Wordsworth takes a different approach in showing an individual’s feelings. Wordsworth’s character feels lonely and depressed. Suddenly, the tone changes to a more joyful and appreciative tone when he stumbles upon a field of daffodils. Clearly, the tones of each poem differ and resemble each other at the same

Although at times the obstacle in her path was so seemingly insurmountable as to make Lucy despondent, she is able to conquer the challenges of social pressure by pursuing her suppressed desires. In a sense, Lucy is a microcosm of England- an extended commentary by Forster (an essayist) on the evolution of England from feudalism to renaissance-era values. As with Lucy, England’s modern lifestyle was greatly influenced by Italian values of freedom and pursuit of basic desires such as love, regardless of the cost. And like Lucy, England struggled to break free of the oppressive weight of its own social hierarchy. But Lucy is not only a placeholder for great countries and races of people- she additionally mimics the journey each person must make from childhood immaturity to adult independence. Forster demonstrates in this 172-page extended allegorical essay that codified oppression as sanctioned by traditional culture will ultimately collapse when set against a determined individual, and via Lucy Honeychurch Emerson imparts a strong warning against blind conformity at the expense of

But from context clues, we can tell that her experiences are influenced by social inequality. Her poem says “viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different ... ”. So she is a victim of social inequality because people . Because of the inequality she feels uncomfortable.

She wonder when those who she left, “would not appear before me in one way or another,” (8) symbolizing her homesickness. Lucy’s feelings of loneliness push her to long for the familiarity of her home even though she has a lack of love towards her mother. Lucy’s dilemma of being trapped in between cultures is the main problem that she faces through the book. Though Lucy and Holden’s dissimilarities can be understood through their contrasting predicaments, this understanding can be enhanced by the comparison of their personal source of

The outgoing nature of Lucy Westenra was quite different from the average woman of the Victorian era. She didn’t understand why limitations were put on women. Throughout her appearance in the novel, she stood to deny

Throughout “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth shows his relationship with nature through his choice of diction, fantastic descriptions, and shifting mood of his poem. There are also many words and phrases that Wordsworth included into his poem that shows how he feels about nature. These phrases are well written, extremely descriptive, and show how Wordsworth is influenced by the wild: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils", “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 sprightly dance”, “The waves beside them danced; but they out-did the sparkling waves in glee”, “I gazed—and gazed—but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought”, and “For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye [...] and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” Another phrase, which indicates that the flowers were so beautiful that no true poet could be sad in their presence, also builds upon Wordsworth’s relationship with nature. These particular lines in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” show how Wordsworth’s mood shifts from somber and lonely to joyous and content. The lines also show how the gorgeousness of nature sticks with

When reading the title of Wordworth’s poem, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” my first impression was that of a old hag living in a secluded and dark cavern or forest. Perhaps she is someone who is misunderstood or in actuality just more of an introverted individual. Who is this “she”, referenced in the title?

“The gates of liberty seemed still unopened. Lucy was conscious of her discontent; it was new to her to be conscious of it. "The world," she thought, "is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them" (4.6). In this scene Lucy is wandering around in a city in Rome alone, back in the era this novel was set at a woman was normally not suppose to wander in a city alone, but Lucy is becoming more in control of

By observing a woman’s eternal beauty, Wordsworth successfully conveys his discovery of what makes his wife truly beautiful. Beginning with a distant view that offers an illusion, he closes up to a more realistic and spiritual appreciation of his wife. The poem is well organized because it has a clear structure which gives us correct understanding. In my opinion the poet wants to depict each and every detail of the lady from the day he met her till now when they are happily married. The beauty which the poet describes about her is eloquent but at the same time it is very calm and soft, something delicate. The sound of the poem is mesmerizing and melodic. The poem’s overall tone is of admiration and respect. This poem shows how their relationship grows and how he comes to appreciate her for many different reasons. The poem has a logical order and the analysis makes us capture the main ideas of the poet. But being a romantic description it is also a profound and realistic one. Other aspects I want to talk about are the rhetorical devices and figures of speech. I think they are so interesting in the sense we need to understand them to understand the correct meaning of the

William and Dorothy Wordsworths’ literary relationship has many different aspects to it but Dorothy was never as famous as her brother. By using feminist theory we can truly understand their relationship between the brother and sister and the linking in their writings. By looking at William’s poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ which is also known as ‘The daffodils’ and Dorothy’s Grasmere Journal a deep connection is also shown. Both William and his sister Dorothy were great writers, but William seemed to have out shone his sister. By using feminist theory one might see exactly why William received more fame than his sister. One might also see why William got this fame by using historical criticism. By using these two particular schools of

As this question states, William Wordsworth’s poetry demonstrates “nature poet,” “real language of men,” “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” and “emotion recollected in tranquility.” The first is the easiest to indemnify. In Wordsworth’s poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", there are several lines that depict nature. An example is the line, “The Rainbow comes and goes, / And lovely is the Rose.” (Wordsworth 10 – 11). In the preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth defines “real language of men” as a line or a sequence of lines that are written in “the language of prose” rather than the poetic metre normally associated with poetry (Preface to Lyrical Ballads n.d.). An example of this would be

How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism? Q. How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism? A. Romantic poetry was an artistic movement of the late 18th and early 19th century. It dealt with nature, human imagination, childhood and the ability to recall emotional memories of both happiness and sadness.

In conclusion, both women were measured by their beauty and represented little else but their physical appearances. Obviously both poems were written in a male dominated era where women’s only role was to be beautiful, caring and kind. However, the similarity of the two separates at how they were represented by their admirers. The unknown woman had an obvious beauty; though it was beauty with a difference. Lucy, however, was a hidden beauty that needed to be

Wordsworth makes the connection between Lucy and England by expressing how his feelings of joy and desire of England came from her presence. She is introduced into the poem at line 11 and 12 in which she “turned her wheel beside and English Fire” and is confirmed to be Lucy at lines 15 and 16 in which she saw a green field

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.