I wandered lonely as a cloud.ppt

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud --William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud? (我如行云独自游) Life Experience William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Mother died when he was eight and Father died when he was 13 Visited France in 1790 In 1795 the Wordsworth stayed in a cottage in Dorset, where they met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. poet laureate William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Representative of the paasive Romantic poets. His poetry is a voice of comprehensive humanity and one that inspires his audience to see the world freshly, sympathetically and naturally. simplicity and purity of his language Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey were known as Lake Poets because they lived and knew one another in the last few years of the 18th century in the district of the great lakes in Northwestern England. Major works 1. Lyrical Ballads ( 《抒情歌谣集》，1798) 2.Lucy Poems (《露茜》，1799) 3.Sonnet (1802): “Westminster Bridge” “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 4 Poems in Two Volume (1807): “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” ; “The Solitary Reaper” 5 The Prelude (《序曲》，1850 ) Special Features Influence the leading figure of the English romantic poetry. contribution: he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature. Introduction Title 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.  But as he catches sight of daffodils and finds himself in the midst of nature, his loneliness turns into relaxation and joy. Thus the shift of the poet’s mood from sadness to happiness manifests the theme --- the great influence of nature upon human being. Imagery Figure of spee