COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE WAY WORDSWORTH AND HUGHES WRITE ABOUT NATURE
IN THEIR POEMS DAFFODILS AND THISTLES
Hughes wrote the poem “Thistles” which is about how these plants are.
He speaks about them as if they were a sign of violence, and violent
creatures. He views them as a symbol of vengeance, pain and threat.
The thistles are spiky and can hurt anyone. They are dull, immortal,
green, rough, and produce a big amount of chaos, written in????????
Wordsworth on the other hand, wrote about “Daffodils” which are small
golden flowers. They look vivid, colourful and peaceful. These flowers
produce a state of calm, sweet and memorable moments. Written in
romantic era of literature, in 1804
Each poet creates a different mood in their poems. Hughes’ use of
imagery creates a bad and nasty mood. It even creates horrible and
mean moods, and sometimes a scary mood. The use of imagery has a
reason to it as well; the purpose of it is to make people get a
vision, a small scene, and a picture in their minds of what thistles
look like, and what they do to be so painful. Hughes’ way of using
imagery is good as it explains whatever he sees; it shows that he can
use other things or words to explain his views. An example of this
imagery is the line that says “everyone manages a plume of blood” this
makes people think that everyone has a river of blood on them, so it
brings a horrible scene into people’s minds. Wordsworth doesn’t use
much imagery but whenever he does, he uses it in such a way that
people want to continue to read the poem a few more times. His was of
using imagery makes people get a nice and pleasant view of the
daffodils, like for example in the line “tossing their heads in
sprightly dance” this shows t...
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keep the scene in mind all the time and makes you think about the
daffodils. But, when you think about the scene of the thistles poem,
it isn’t as nice and pleasant. This is because the thistles represent
a battle, a fight, in which death is involved, when you read it, it
reminds you of wars, of fires and all unpleasant memories. The
daffodils basically show happiness and joy to everyone, that is why I
prefer it. The words that the poet uses in order to describe the poem
are exceedingly special as they describe the location in which the
daffodils can be found and admired. In the poem he doesn’t talk about
the daffodils beside the lake, it also talks about how it affected his
life and how he kept on thinking in the daffodils after being in the
lake. This poem is more memorable than the thistles one, which is why
I prefer it more.
to deepen the feelings that are already looming after the first two lines. A poet may use different concepts throughout their poem to relate to a general idea;
Since the character is illiterate, he has no ability to determine his true feelings for the loved one. Additionally, this use of repetitive words in the poem also shows the lack of diction by the character. When words are repeated, it typically tells someone that they are either confused or have a weak vocabulary. Since it is implied that the man had a small lexicon because of his illiteracy, the poem reveals his ideas in a simplistic and repetitive wording
Emerson is a transcendentalist who drew inspiration from nature. Emerson’s thought motivated most of the American writers and also most of the poet got inspired by Emerson’s words. He also spoke against slavery and even helped runaway slaves. Thoreau is also an American transcendentalist and also he is interested in studying about nature. He inspired countless people and also he was jailed for not accepting tax system. Later, Thoreau went to wood so that he can concentrate on his work. He was so interested to nature that he kept every detail note and observation on nature. So, in “The American Scholar” Emerson considers man and nature as same, where as in “Walden” Thoreau considers nature more important than man.
The poems make for a simple addition to the narrative and allows for a much more meaningful experience for a reader and makes for a much more engrossing story, thus adding to the experience as a whole.
enable us to understand the moral of the poem. Which is work hard and you will receive you goals and never give up.
When thinking about nature, Hans Christian Andersen wrote, “Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” John Muir and William Wordsworth both expressed through their writings that nature brought them great joy and satisfaction, as it did Andersen. Each author’s text conveyed very similar messages and represented similar experiences but, the writing style and wording used were significantly different. Wordsworth and Muir express their positive and emotional relationships with nature using diction and imagery.
result it has on people. In all three poems the last line of the poems
Man and Nature were always linked together right from the beginning of time. Men depend for their livelihood on nature and this is why people give a lot of importance to nature ultimately leading to the protection of nature by men. The common understanding of men is that they protect nature but on the other hand nature also shapes the life of man so man and nature stands at an equal position. Ralph Waldo Emerson born on 25th May, 1803 and died on 27th April and Henry David Thoreau who was born on 12th July 1817 and died in 6th May 1862 were both born in Massachusetts were friends and Thoreau was influenced by Emerson. Nature according to Emerson should be given importance since man has to seek for answers from nature and that no matter how intelligent a man may be yet it is on nature that he will have to depend but Thoreau has a different opinion to it and he thinks that nature is important but man should be given equal importance.
The relationship between man and nature is immeasurable because man and nature are interdependent on each other. Nature is everything that supports life on earth and man enjoys the beauty of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston and he was teacher by profession and also a naturalist (Semihatopal, n.d). Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord in July 12th 1817 and he was an ecological prophet and also naturalist who was the student of Emerson. (Rickett, 1916). Emerson and Thoreau are the two transcendentalists in nineteenth century who inspired and encourage people to love nature. Since Thoreau was Emerson’s student, they shared ideas and knowledge about the American transcendentalism because Thoreau was affected by Emerson’s ideas about individualism and society. They encourage Individualism and self-reliance; the theories of Emerson and Thoreau had not only influenced the nature lovers but also the dominant part of political and social people as a whole, sensitising the people that their ideas are the most important than everything. Therefore, Emerson and Thoreau followed the same theory about the relationship between man and nature as both were transcendentalist; they also have different ideas and views such as writing essay on Government, nature as a teacher, relationship between man and nature, understanding the nature as it provides basic living to a man.
When humans and nature come together, they either coexist harmoniously because nature's inhabitants and humans share a mutual respect and understanding for each other, or they clash because humans attempt to control and force their ways of life on nature. The poems, "The Bull Moose" by Alden Nowlan, "The Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke, "Walking the Dog" by Howard Nemerov, and "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, describe what happens when humans and nature come together. I believe that when humans and nature come together they either clash and conflict because individuals destroy and attempt to control nature, which is a reflection of their powerful need to control themselves, or humans live peacefully with nature because not only do they admire and respect nature, but also they can see themselves in nature.
Authors, William Wordsworth and William Blake convey different messages and themes in their poems, “The World is Too Much with Us” and “The Tyger” consecutively by using the different mechanics one needs to create poetry. Both poems are closely related since they portray different aspects of society but the message remains different. Wordsworth’s poem describes a conflict between nature and humanity, while Blake’s poem issues God’s creations of completely different creatures. In “The World is Too Much with Us,” we figure the theme to be exactly what the title suggests: Humans are so self-absorbed with other things such as materialism that there’s no time left for anything else. In “The Tyger” the theme revolves around the question of what the Creator (God) of this creature seems to be like and the nature of good vs. evil. Both poems arise with some problem or question which makes the reader attentive and think logically about the society.
In William Wordsworth’s poems, the role of nature plays a more reassuring and pivotal r ole within them. To Wordsworth’s poetry, interacting with nature represents the forces of the natural world. Throughout the three poems, Resolution and Independence, Tintern Abbey, and Michael, which will be discussed in this essay, nature is seen prominently as an everlasting- individual figure, which gives his audience as well as Wordsworth, himself, a sense of console. In all three poems, Wordsworth views nature and human beings as complementary elements of a sum of a whole, recognizing that humans are a sum of nature. Therefore, looking at the world as a soothing being of which he is a part of, Wordsworth looks at nature and sees the benevolence of the divinity aspects behind them. For Wordsworth, the world itself, in all its glory, can be a place of suffering, which surely occurs within the world; Wordsworth is still comforted with the belief that all things happen by the hands of the divinity and the just and divine order of nature, itself.
The Influence of Nature in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
The poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth is about the poet’s mental journey in nature where he remembers the daffodils that give him joy when he is lonely and bored. The poet is overwhelmed by nature’s beauty where he thought of it while lying alone on his couch. The poem shows the relationship between nature and the poet, and how nature’s motion and beauty influences the poet’s feelings and behaviors for the good. Moreover, the process that the speaker goes through is recollected that shows that he isolated from society, and is mentally in nature while he is physically lying on his couch. Therefore, William Wordsworth uses figurative language and syntax and form throughout the poem to express to the readers the peace and beauty of nature, and to symbolize the adventures that occurred in his mental journey.
William Wordsworth was known as the poet of nature. He devoted his life to poetry and used his feeling for nature to express him self and how he evolved.