Literature in English, SS 2, Week 8
Topic: Introduction to Non African Poem
E.g (Daffodils)
Daffodils was written by the author, William Woodsworth
Background of the Poet
William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland England in 1770. He was educated both in Cumberland and Cambridge, most of his poem varies around nature and its beauty. He is one of the founders of English Romanticism. He died peacefully in his shop in Isso at Rydal at the age of 80
Background of the Poem
The poem is a romantic and metaphysical one because it is beyond the physical and talks about the beauty of nation , such poets are find comfort amidst dead leaves, flowers, stars, moon, waters and ghost than in the regular world where men and women lived.
Analysis of the Poem
It is poets admiration of nature in line with the dictates of Romantic poetry. The poem describes the beauty which the poet once behold but which he now recalls while he is in a lovely mood.
Notes: Student should read the book for proper understanding
Other non african poems are:
- William Soutar – Elegy written in a Country Church-yard
- Langston Hughes – The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
- Robert Frost – Two look at Two
- Wilfred Owens – Strange Meeting
- Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
- John Donne – The Sun Rising
- Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Owen – A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning
- Houseman – Is my team ploughing?
- John Fletcher – Upon A Honest Man’s Fortune
- Alfred Tennyson – Ulysses
- Percy Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
- Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and The Sea
- William Golding – Lord of the Flies
- Walter Raleigh – The Soul’s Errand
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