【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 content of the poem by focusing the first three stanzas on the experience at the lake and the last stanza on the memory of that experience. The poem contains four stanzas of six lines each. In each stanza, the first line rhymes with the third and the second with the fourth. The stanza then ends with a rhyming couplet. The lines in the poem are in iambic tetrameter(抑揚格四步詩 ) , as demonstrated in the third stanza. The rhyme scheme is: abab cc dede ff ghgh ii The rhythm is clear and the rhyme is harmonious. Long vowels and diphthongs are widely used to reduce the rhythm of the poem. Soft voiceless consonants account for 65% pared with 35% of hard voiced consonants, which makes the poem gentle and smooth. Theme Nature39。 s beauty uplifts the human spirit. Lines 15, 23, and 24 specifically refer to this theme. People sometimes fail to appreciate nature39。s wonders as they go about their daily routines. Lines 17 and 18 suggest this theme. Nature thrives unattended. The daffodils proliferate in splendor along the shore of the lake without the need for human attention. Examples of Figures of Speech Stanza 1 Alliteration: lonely as a cloud (line 1) high o39。er vales and Hills (line 2) golden Daffodils (line 4) Beside the Lake, beneath the trees, When all at once (line 3) Simile: Comparison (using as) of the speaker39。s solitariness to that of a cloud (line 1) Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1) Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to a crowd of people (lines 34) Comparison of daffodils to dancing humans (lines 4, 6). Appreciation I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud brings to life many vibrant images of what the author saw on the occasion from which the poem is written. How he was wandering about is the first。 floating lonely as a cloud, which could mean graceful, it could be fast or slow, but o39。er vales and hills is important because the reader visualizes the surroundings which are being described in the poem. The image of the daffodils is impressed upon the reader in a very vivid way. Anyone who has observed a breezy day, and the way that plants, flowers, and water appear and move on such a day, could easily see through Wordsworth39。s eyes this scene, thanks to the manner in which he wrote it. We see the shock of yellow (he says golden) and the mass of flowers, swaying and bending in the breeze. Assign a personality to them and they could be nothing but happy. The poem shows the features of symbolism. In ―I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‖, the daffodils bee much more than mere flowers. They are a symbol of natural beauty and, more importantly, symbolize living a life as rich in experience and sensation as would make a life worth living. They represent, in their lighthearted dance, the joy and happiness of living an adoring and fulfilling life, embracing it for every drop of nectar (花蜜 ) it could so bring. Romanticism, a poetic philosophy that Wordsworth himself engendered, finds much virtue in this meaning. The poet‘s heart is merged with the daffodils, which inspires the poet‘s joy and happiness. The daffodils reaching out and catching the eye of Wordsworth‘s narrator, or perhaps Wordsworth himself, and inspiring him so much emotionally, that he was left with little choice than to express them poetically. Naturally the images brought into our view by the author are quite important to the theme of the poem, and the theme is the happiness brought about by the author39。s privilege in viewing the daffodil39。s dance. He conjures up that image later and uses it to give himself an emotional boost. The local of the daffodils heightens the reaction to them, as they are next to a body of water which too can be personified, which too the poet has prescribed humanlike action and feeling. We expect a demonstration of nature in this manner from a Romantic Poet among other things, a prominent theme in the poetry of that movement. I believe that people have e to realize that in our modern world we are out of touch with nature, and at a spiritual level more people are making an attempt to reconnect with nature, in an effort to bring forth personal enlightenment and peace. 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 –1834) Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (老水手謠 /古舟子詠 ) and Kubla Khan (忽必烈汗 ), as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria (文學傳記 ). His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to Englishspeaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism (超驗論 ). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by Coleridge. It was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, which was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. The poem on the surface explores violation of nature and its resulting psychological effects on the Mariner, who interprets the fates of his crew to be a direct result of his having shot down an albatross. Although the poem is often read as a Christian allegory, it is argued that it is really a story of our salvation of Christ, rath