Question

Read the following prompt and type your response in the space provided. Read Emily Dickinson's " As childern bid the guest good - night" and reread Wordsworth's " I Wandered Lonely as a cloud." Describe the mood of each poem. Compare how the language each poet uses creates mood. Support your answer with specific examples from the poems. Next, discuss the figurative language each poet uses. Describe how they create meaning in their poems through the use of figurative language. Support your answer with examples from the poems

Answer 1

1.) In the first poem, "As children bid the guest good - night", it describes a mood of calmness by using flowers as a way to describe children. The poem states "My flowers raise their pretty lips" describing a flower closing in the night to sleep while "My flowers from a hundred cribs will peep, and prance again." describes the children waking up the next morning. This poem gives a calm and relaxed feeling through and out the text.

2.) This poem describes a happy and relaxed mood by describing daffodil's and how they dance through the breeze. The term "dancing with the daffodils" shows the feeling of happiness as the author describes how his heart is filled with joy. Relaxation is felt as the author compares the daffodils to the "twinkle on the milky way" term.


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