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English Poem

Published on Jan 17, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Daffodils

William Wordsworth (Project by Jaclyn and Annika)
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William Wordsworth

  • Background shaped works
  • Hawkshead Grammar School
  • English Romanticism

THeme

  • Nature doesn't disappoint
  • People fail to appreciate nature's beauty sometimes
  • Nature thrives unattended

Hyberbole

  • Ten thousand saw I at a glance
  • They stretched in never-ending line

Personification

  • The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee
  • Tossing their heads in sprightly dance
  • Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Photo by -Reji

Symbolism

  • Daffodils: beauty
  • Cloud: author/narrator
Photo by kaybee07

Similes & Metaphors

  • I wandered lonely as a cloud
  • Continuous as the stars that shine
  • flash upon...eye/Which is a bliss of solitude
Photo by Nick Schooley

Imagery

  • golden daffodils/Beside...lake, beneath...trees
  • Along the margins of the bay
  • on my couch I lie
  • They flash upon that inward eye
Photo by Puzzler4879

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