第一篇：英语诗歌欣赏范文
《英语诗歌欣赏》小论文
Enjoying English Poetry Course Essay
Student’s Name:
Class Number: Date: 2015/12/21
Wordsworth’s View on Nature
Based on the Reading of I Wandered Lonely as
a Cloud
Che Hongyu
Wordsworth was a British poet in the 19 century and the poet laureate since
th1843 till his death in 1850. He was born and grew up in the English Lake District and the beautiful scenery of his hometown nurtured his deep love for nature and his purpose of praising nature in his work. He called himself “Prophet of Nature” in The Prelude, and claimed that prophets of nature “will speak a lasting inspiration, sanctified by reason, blest by faith: what we have loved, others will love and we will teach them how” (Wordsworth, 1979: 482), by which he means he, as a nature worshipper, will write about his love for nature in his work and show the readers what he loves about nature, so as to teach them how to love nature and evoke their love for nature.
This essay will analyze the poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud from the aspects of writing background, metrical patterns, figures of speech and images so as to examine William Wordsworth’s view on nature. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written in 1804 and believed to be one of the most beautiful poems written on nature. The poet wrote this poem based on his experience on April 15th, 1802. That day, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth were walking in the Lake District, to quote Dorothy in Grasmere Journals, “It was a threatening misty morning-but mild. We set off after dinner…The wind was furious & we thought we must have returned…We first rested in the large Boat-house, then under a furze Bush…The wind seized our breath the Lake was rough. We rested again in the Water Millock Lane…We got over into a field to avoid some cows…When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side” (Abrams, 2000: 391). It was clear that that day was a windy one, Wordsworth and his sister set off for a walk after dinner but was frustrated by furious wind. They rested in the Boathouse, under a bush, and in the Water Millock Lane and they walked on against the wind and when they arrived at the woods, they saw the daffodils. The daffodils were beautiful and vast, “there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road (Abrams, 2000: 391)”. They did not expect to see such beautiful daffodils in such a multitude on such a rough day. “I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing (Abrams, 2000: 391)”. The daffodils are not only beautiful but also cheerful, such natural beauty cheered up the two travelers on such a windy cold day. Two years later, Wordsworth wrote the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud to praise nature. Obviously, the theme of the poem is “nature is beautiful and wise” as shown in daffodils. To show the beauty and charm of daffodils, the poet creates a musically beautiful poem. This poem was written in iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of ababcc. All the four stanzas follow the same metrical pattern, and the whole poem is actually an ode to daffodils of the Horatian type. Tetrameter, shorter than pentameter, creates a cheerful rhythm and the use of traditional iambic meter ensures the soothing effect of musicality of the poem. The long vowels of au, i:, ai, ei, a: also create a comforting, calming effect on the readers, beautifully soothing. The repetition of the lateral l sound adds to this loving and peaceful effect. The poet’s use of the euphony shows how much he wants to show and convey to the readers the beauty of daffodils, which is also the beauty of nature.
Apart from the musical beauty, the poet uses various figures of speech and images to further show the beauty and cheerfulness of the daffodils. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker was seen as a lonely wanderer in the hill, who was compared to “a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills”. But the appearance of the daffodils greatly changed his melancholy mood. He did not see just one or two daffodils, but a great many, “a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils”, “continuous as the stars…on the milky way”, “they stretched in never-ending line”, “ten thousand saw I at a glance”. The images of “crowd”, “host”, “never-ending line” showed the non-loneliness of the flowers which instantly impressed the speaker. The daffodils are not only impressive in number, but also extremely cheerful, happy and inspiring. The kinesthetic images of “fluttering”, “dancing’, “shine and twinkle”, “tossing their heads in spritely dance” depicted vivid pictures of this “jocund” company. Nature is beautiful, as shown in the poem, but not only so. Nature teaches people about the wisdom of life too. The daffodils are blooming in the rough wind, dancing, shining, fluttering against the bad weather, which tells the speaker a truth about nature: nature is naturally merry. The wind is rough, that is what the wind is; this does not stop the daffodils from remaining happy and celebrating life. The speaker was influenced by the cheerfulness of nature and forgot his loneliness. Even upon retrospection, when the speaker was “in vacant or in pensive mood”, the wisdom taught by nature’s beauty still came back to him, “they flash upon that inward eye/Which is the bliss of solitude” and this inspired him and worked a wonder on him, and he became happy. To conclude, Wordsworth loves nature and believes nature is not only beautiful, but also wise. He, as a poet, takes “praising nature” as his mission and tries to be the “prophet of nature”. He uses the persona to express his faith in and love for nature in this poem. He believes if people try to appreciate nature’s beauty, take in nature’s wisdom, humbly accept nature’s nurturing, people will be wise and happy.
Note: All the quotations of the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud are from《英语诗歌欣赏》，蒲度戎主编，2008，重庆：重庆大学出版社。
References 1. Abrams, M. H., 2000, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition, volume 2. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
2. Wordsworth, W., 1979, The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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第二篇：六一儿童节英语作文：六一儿童节英语诗歌欣赏(2)
六一儿童节英语作文：六一儿童节英语诗歌欣赏(2)Children watch architecture in a building blockChildren， the Children Happy
I admire how you are
Architecture in a building block to see you aloneHouse at the hands of skillful you
Block 1 of the established Weiran
In praise of the elders after
You are always happy to put them came overturnedTear down the moment you laugh
Carefree transparent clear
Children， I admire you
You can start again immediately Innovate
People often say： The world is a stage
Life but can not be the slightest bit GamesOur lives every reconstruction
Too many things to pay
Faced with the colorful building blocks of lifeAt the time we set up
Always do not have the courage to tear down theThose who are already old things
We are forced to stick to conventions
Rough tough life
Has enabled us to fall short of
Architecture in a building block when you the imagination of today
Faced with a heavy heart and a sense of helplessnessChildren， I sincerely admire you
Faced with this complex social
How I wish I could
Children of Freedom in a state of mind
To build their own high-rise buildings
Innovate do not go out of ordinary things
看孩子搭积木
孩子，幸福的孩子
我是多么的羡慕你
看你独自搭积木
房子在你灵巧的手下
一座座巍然的树立起
在接受了长辈夸奖后
你总乐于把它们轰然推倒
推倒的瞬间你的笑声
清澈透明 无忧无虑
孩子，我羡慕你
你能马上开始再次创新
人们常说：世界是舞台
可人生却不容半点游戏
我们生命中的每一次重建都要支付太多的东西面对人生五光十色的积木我们在搭建时
总是没有勇气去推倒那些早已陈旧的事物我们被迫墨守陈规人生的艰辛坎坷已使我们失却了
你今天搭积木时的想象力面对内心的沉重和无奈孩子，我衷心羡慕你面对这个复杂的社会我多么希望我能够以一个孩子的自由心境去搭建自己的高楼大厦去创新出不平凡的事物
第三篇：六一儿童节英语作文：六一儿童节英语诗歌欣赏(5)
六一儿童节英语作文：六一儿童节英语诗歌欣赏(5)I am glad I was your teacher
Though you troubled me through and throughYou split the chalk and broke the glass
And I made you kneel down too
But now that the year is almost gone
And the holidays are near
I am surprised most of all coz
I can‘t believe the end is here
Next term you will be older
Whether wiser- I am not sure
Some other class teacher will face it allHow well – I do not know.
I remember all the fun we had
I am sure you remember too
All the pranks and the spanks
But we managed to get through
I can’t believe the end is here
You will all be sorely missed
And I hate to see you go
‘Coz you’ll are very special kids.
Children of an Unfair God
Mama， please don‘t hurt me anymore
I am only little， just about four
Don’t wake me up from my deep sleep
Don‘t take me to work; why can’t it keep?Can‘t you send me to school?
Like the neighbourhood kids
Can’t I learn to read and browse through books?‘No you can’t‘， says the mother
Dragging her child away
You must go to work
To keep hunger at bay
Five children have we to keep and to feedHow can you think about so much sleep?
第四篇：六一儿童节英语作文：六一儿童节英语诗歌欣赏(4)
六一儿童节英语作文：六一儿童节英语诗歌欣赏(4)I would like to live in a world that will never grow upIt is naive， kind-hearted， do not hurt each othereven quarrel， but also quick and good
even cry， it will soon stop
bedroom playground Jiang river
stacking toy with our common
blue sky， white earth
go small windmill
small horse， small flowers
show the smiling faces of his shyness
depression is now the world‘s people
offensive. Also can not be changed
especially when the time to send our young peopleinto middle age into old age
our hard life
only one night a year
temporarily used to spending
only one night a year
think of things far away
moving and pale
我想活在一个永远也长不大的世界
人们天真，善良，不互相伤害
即使吵架，也很快和好即使哭泣，也很快停止卧室里，操场上，江河边堆积着我们共同的玩具天空蔚蓝，大地洁白走到哪里都是小风车小木马，小花朵
展露出羞怯的笑脸
如今的世界叫人忧郁厌恶。又无法改变
特别是当时间把我们送入青年送入中年，送入老年我们艰辛生活，苦中作乐每年只有一个晚上
用来短暂地挥霍
每年只有一个晚上
想起遥远的事物
兀自动容，又黯然失色
第五篇：英语诗歌范文
给你介绍一首关于青春的诗吧,希望能对你有帮助,可以在发言的最后引用,或者摘取部分诗句,是我非常喜欢的一首.
YOUTH Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
the diversity of my university life
Look! There is a rainbow! On the first day of my university life, when I walked into the campus, there was a rainbow bridging over the fountain, I hadn’t seen rainbow for a long time. I was so excited, and leaped high with joy. My ponytail danced with my happiness. It was a propitious sign indicated that my life in university would be colorful, and actually it is!
After my entry into university, I found my life so busy. What I should do is not only gaining the scholarship but also being a good monitor and leader of shanghai university percussion band. I got the 1st and 2nd price of scholarship in my 2 years of study. I organized charity donations for schoolmates with financial difficulty or disease. Every
week, I give drum lesson to new members of our percussion band. And there are always a lot of non-business performances, such as entertaining guests, celebrating party, cultural exchange with foreign students delegations and their bands. Of course, part-time job is indispensable in my vacations. I ask for no payment but aim at getting accustomed to the society.
Sometimes, my friends advise me not to tire myself out with such a tight schedule. I wake up before the rooster crow, and continue working till very late when others are enjoying their sweet dreams. Every time I come back from the rehearsal of percussion band, I have to finish my homework with the help of my own charged light because of the
blackout in out dormitory. Maybe such kind of life is something like an ascetic, but we should work hard and try hard in our youth, aren’t we?
When I represented shanghai university to take part in the POND’s new century lady competition held in May, when I show off on the stage, when I emerged as “the girl of vitality”, I made use of every bit of time to compensate the classes I had missed, I made use of every chance to learn from other girls with vitality, versatility and intelligence, I made use of this opportunity to present our university students’ state of mind.
There is a little bitterness in my busy life, but at the same time, there is sweetness. It is colorful. I make fun out of it. I love it. When I snatch a little leisure I lie on the green grass, reading books, I cripple myself in the window-seat in our library---the 2nd largest in shanghai---I absorb knowledge like a hungry sponge, I wonder along the bank of river, listening to oriels in willows and get a splendid sunset view of the campus. The sky is drunk with the sunset; I am drunk with the sweetness of my like.
Besides study, music is the most important part of my life. I began to learn piano at 6 and drum at 11. In school, I teach students to play jazz drums, kettledrums, xylophone and so on. We give performances in many universities to popularize percussion and to bring music to them. I’ve learned drums for so many years and it can’t be separated from my life now. It is my beating heart, my pulse, veins and arteries. When I play it, I wanna move my body, I can sit on my chair anymore I can’t help swinging I communicate with the audience I call upon them to join me with the beat of drums the rhythm of music and the fragmence of youth. Hi, come on!
In one summer vacation, I volunteered to teach my neighborhood community and taxi drivers to learn 100 English sentences for APEC. I made great efforts to walk out of my air-conditioned room and walk into the hot and suffocating weather. Some of these people didn’t have the opportunity to get good education, and even didn’t know ABC! I tried hard to find and easy way to teach them. For example, how to remember “the Oriental TV
tower”? I put “tower” as “套鞋” in shanghai dialect. It is not the right way to teach and learn English like this, but actually it is the only way. In the end of my vacation, they could use some daily language. I was so glad and thought my efforts rewarding. Being a volunteer, I mould myself serve the people and welcome the coming APEC. Being a university student living in ivory tower, I feel the hardness of taxi driver. It was at that time that I cherished most my opportunity to study in shanghai university which enjoys the first rate facilities in china. I will work hard and contribute myself to our country in the future.
And another summer vacation, I worked as a junior clerk in an import and export
company. I didn’t know how to draw up invoice; how to make customs declaration forms; how to fill the packing list or I even didn’t know what is CIF! I strongly feel my lack of
working and social experience; these are knowledge that can’t be learned from textbooks. How to teach oneself, how to make a circle of acquaintances and get along with people of various characters---I think these are the preparation of entry into society and are more important than my scores in examinations. Working in the company, I threw away my t-shirts jeans track shoes and changed into suits dresses and high-hell shoes. It was far from comfortable and occasionally I stumbled over my steps. Oh! How difficult it is to be a
white-collar office lady! One should pretend to be a noble lady, working all day before the table, wearing the dangerous high-heel shoes! Isn’t it a challenge?
My life in university is like allegro. It is painstaking but worthwhile; bitter but sweet; tiring but exciting. The rainbow appeared in my first day of university life promised me a colorful life. Over the rainbow, there is the sky high above. The way ahead is long, I see no ending, yet high or low, I will search my will unbending!