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The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
The poem comprises five sections, each of six tercets, describing the same seascape as viewed from the deck of a ship. Each section repeats the description in different terms but uses recurring words (slopping, chocolate, umbrellas, green, blooms, etc.) and often the same syntax.
The 1886 drawing shown here of a "Fata Morgana" in a desert might have been an imaginative illustration for the poem, but in reality no mirage ever looks like this. Andy Young writes, "They're always confined to a narrow strip of sky—less than a finger's width at arm's length—at the horizon." [1]
And doesn't old Cobh look charming there Watching the wild waves' motion, Leaning her back up against the hills, And the tip of her toes in the ocean. I wonder I don't hear Shandon's bells— Ah! maybe their chiming's over, For it's many a year since I began The life of a western rover. Oh! often upon the Texas plains, When the day and the ...
"Sea-Drift" is the title of a section of Walt Whitman's major poetic work Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855.It is a compilation of poems referring to the sea or the sea-shore.
“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...
Just like you might think rocks that seem to move on their own are driven by a power not of this world. But now both of those mysteries have something in common: totally natural explanations.
Like the heaven above. This was quoted in Hanson's Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) These were the final words of the poem in the original publication, but later versions published anonymously by other authors appended various additions to ...