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Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. – William Wordsworth (1802) " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " (also sometimes called " Daffodils " [ 2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [ 3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk ...
The Angel (. Songs of Experience. ) William Blake: The Angel. Copy W [ 1] William Blake: Rossetti Manuscript, 1793, No. 52, page p. 103 rev. - The Angel. "The Angel" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.
A Little Boy Lost. " A Little Boy Lost " is a poem of the Songs of Experience series created in 1794 after the Songs of Innocence (1789) by the poet William Blake. The poem centres on the theme of religious persecution and the corrupted dictates of dogmatic Church teachings. As part of Songs of Experience the poem is set in the wider context of ...
The Abbey and the upper reaches of the Wye, a painting by William Havell, 1804. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey is a poem by William Wordsworth.The title, Lines Written (or Composed) a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, is often abbreviated simply to Tintern Abbey, although that building does not appear within the poem.
Sonnet 83 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDCD EE and is composed in iambic pentameter, a metre of five feet per line, with two syllables in each foot accented weak/strong. Most of the lines are examples of regular iambic pentameter ...
You Are Old, Father William. " You Are Old, Father William " is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in his 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is recited by Alice in Chapter 5, "Advice from a Caterpillar" (Chapter 3 in the original manuscript). Alice informs the Caterpillar that she has previously tried to repeat "How Doth the ...
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. Sonnet 81 is one of 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare, and published in a quarto titled Shakespeare's Sonnets in 1609. It is a part of the Fair Youth series of sonnets, and the fourth sonnet of the Rival Poet series.
William Blake was unorthodox in his views on theology, but at the same time heavily influenced by orthodox religion, as his art attests. He was deeply disturbed by poverty, child labor, prostitution, and hypocrisy of Church and oppressive nature of government. Understanding this about his personality serves one well in dissecting his poetry.