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vanessahunterson
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High School - 9th Grade

What is the poem "To Wordsworth" by Percy Bysshe Shelley about?

 

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Posted by vanessahunterson on Thursday April 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM and tagged with i wandered lonely as a cloud, poem.

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  1. sanjiwan Student
    College - Senior

    The answer to your question is not very easy to express. I ,however, wish to give it a try.

    In the very poem the lines `` Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first glow, Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn,``have been personified. And since  Wordsworth lost them like  sweet dreams, it may have given him the reason to  mourn. So, till this point of the poem,we have only one theme: Lose.

    We can further find the following things as well.

    Simile:Childhood and youth; friendship and love's first glow, have been compared with ``Sweet dreams.``

    Alliteration: Blind and battling.

    Tone/Diction: With  such words as  mourn,winter,midnight, woes,lose,there we can find a sense of nostalgia and depression.So, a new theme has come to us as ``Nostalgia and depression of Wordsworth this time.

    Furthermore, the phrase`` winter`s midnightroar`` expresses paradoxical thought , because the winter is normally thought of as cold, quiet and rather dead in and of itself.The phrase`` honoured poverty``is also odd for most of us for most of we know that it is only the rich and powerful who are honoured and revered more.

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    Posted by sanjiwan on Friday April 24, 2009 at 3:27 AM