IWanderedLonelyasaCloud解析（仅供参考）.ppt

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; 简介 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” was written by William Wordsworth, the representative poet of the early romanticism. As a great poet of nature, William Wordsworth was the first to find words for the most elementary sensations of man face to face with natural phenomena. These sensations are universal and old but, once expressed in his poetry, become charmingly beautiful and new. His deep love for nature runs through short lyrics such as “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” .;Introduction and Background;I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.; Wordsworth, in the poem, employs figurative language to evoke not only the visual effect but also the emotional response. e.g. in line 1 simile → his lonely and melancholy mood with the image of “cloud”. Wordsworth goes further to communicate his emotion and meaning by his thoughtful tone. The choose of the word “lonely” in “I wandered lonely as a cloud” instead of other words like carefree, leisure or jolly convey to us the poet’s depression and disconsolateness at the very beginning. ;The poet makes great use of the “music ”of the language to achieve sound beauty in addition to convey meaning. He employs rhyme in “a, b, a, b, c, c” pattern to receive emphasis as a musical effect. (e.g. “cloud” (a), “hills” (b), “crowd” (a), “daffodils” (b), “trees” (c), “breeze” (c) in stanza 1). He also achieves musical quality by the management of alliteration (e.g. “high and hills” in line 2 )and assonance (e.g. “beneath the trees in line 5” ) and consonance (e.g. “ vales and hills” in line 2 ). ;;The memory of the daffodils is given permanence ,particularly through comparison the stars. This is in contrast to the transitory nature of life examined in other works. In the 3rd stanza the poet gradually shifts his attention from the outer world