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Gowher Ahmad Naik, Lovely Professional University Unit 21: Explanation of Seen Passages in Verse

Unit 21: Explanation of Seen Passages in Verse Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

21.1 Example
21.2 Summary
21.3 Keywords
21.4 Review Questions

21.5 Further Readings
Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Know that what is seen passages
• Write seen passages

• Answer the given questions based on seen passages.

Introduction

I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
These lines are taken from the Wordsworth masterpiece poetry ‘Daffodil’. William Wordsworth’s
“I Wandered as Lonely as a Cloud” opens with the narrator describing his action of walking
in a state of worldly detachment; his wandering “As lonely as a cloud / That floats on high
o’er vales and hills,” (1-2). What he is thinking of we never really uncover, but his description
leaves us to analyze his words as a sort of “head in the clouds” daydream-like state where his
thoughts are far away, unconcerned with the immediate circumstances in which he finds
himself. Wordsworth, ever the Romanticist, perhaps uses these two introductory lines to
describe the disconnected and dispassionate ways that we all live our lives; walking through
life in a haze of daily ritual and monotonous distractions in a pointless and spiritually disinterested
state where we fail as emotional creatures to appreciate the quiet beauties of life that we as
human beings need for spiritual sustenance. William Wordsworth’s “lonely cloud” is our own
private impersonal perception of the world, floating miles above it and missing the quiet
virtues of nature, beauty, and other sources of emotional nourishment.

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