The Comparison and Contrast of I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud & The Prese

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and The Preservation of Flowers two notable poems, two really different styles of writing. This essay will look at their contrasts and similarities, from relevant form-only(prenominal) aspects, to the deeper meanings hidden between the lines. We will look at both writers use of rhyme scheme, sound patterning, word choice, figurative language and punctuation. The essay will also touch a little on the backgrounds of the writers themselves, and their inspiration, with the intention of gaining a greater instinct of both texts. The structure and form of both poems is evidently dissimilar. Wordsworths poem follows a clear rhyme scheme ABABCC and contains four stanzas of six lines from each one. In each stanza, the first line rhymes with the third, the second with the fourth and the stanza concludes with a rhyming couplet. Birds sixteen line- narrative verse does not follow any formal rhyme scheme. She describes full rhyme as being too stridentE1 for her p ersonal taste. Choosing instead to use consonance and near rhymes. Despite this seemingly unlawful style with which the poem is written, it does follow an iambic pentameter, with e truly line containing five stressed syllables, except line 13 which contains six. Cer-tain cus-to-mers, he slips an ex-tra rose13. This is a very clever play on words, using the term unnecessary rose to mirror the extra syllable in the line. This patently demonstrates Birds astute consciousness of structure and form. She explains Theres a poetry joke in there too - each line has five stresses, but the extra rose line has six stresses. An extra rose, an extra stress.E2. This again presents another parallel to Wordsworths lyric, where the meter is not u... ... he has a point. Contrary to this statement however, there remains the reality that without dissection and close analysis, the aline meanings encoded within these two texts, might remain perpetually esoteric.Bibliography.T Furniss & M Bath. 1996. Reading Poetry an introduction. Harlow Pearson Education Limited..Preface to Lyrical Ballads, in Wordsworth (1968) Lyrical ballads, pp. 241-72, 246. Organic sensibility refers to the responsiveness of the senses.See The Tables Turned, in Wordsworth (1968) The Lyrical Ballads, pp. 105-6..Internet 1 http//www.enotes.com/william-wordsworth/q-and-a/what-elements-nature-daffodils-poem-144087.Internet 2 http//www.wordsworth.org.uk/poetry/index.asp?pageid=101.Internet 3 http//rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2337.html.Internet4 http//academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html