I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
Literature

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What do you remember about
Romanticism (de Romantiek)?

Slide 2 - Mind map

Theme 1: nature
  • Nature = life-giving force
  • both in man but also the world around him

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Theme 2: the simple man
  • man closest to nature (like farmers) should be idealized

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Theme 3: idealization of the past
  • many Romantic poets were disappointed with the present situation they lived in

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Theme 4: children
  • children were seen as 'pure'
  • surpreme example as they were uncorrupted by the world
  • closer to God and eternity due to purity

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Let's read the text together

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Slide 8 - Video

What is this poem about?

Slide 9 - Mind map

Let's continue
By answering the questions

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1. Describe in your own words where the I-person is and what happens in stanzas 1-3

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Answer:
The man is floating above a field of daffodils. He watches them move in the wind, which makes him happy.

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2. What happens in stanza 4?

Slide 13 - Mind map

Answer:
He describes how he sometimes thinks back at the daffodils.

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3. What's the difference between stanzas 1-3 and stanza 4?


In terms of time and place.
Class discussion.

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Answer to question 3
Time:
  • Stanzas 1 - 3 are in the past
  • Stanza 4 is in the present

Place:
  • Stanzas 1 - 3 are outside
  • Stanza 4 is inside

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4. Much imagery is used in this poem.

In pairs / small groups, find them.

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Which metaphors did you find?

Slide 18 - Mind map

Which similes did you find?

Slide 19 - Mind map

Which personifications did you find?

Slide 20 - Mind map

Answer to question 4
metaphor:
  • inward eye (mind's eye > in gedachten voor je zien)

simile:
  • lonely as a cloud

personifications (you don't have to add these to your reader!)
  • a crowd of daffodils fluttering and dancing in the wind
  • tossing their heads in sprightly dance
  • the waves beside them danced
  • my heart dances with the daffodils

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5. What is the effect of the imagery used?

First discuss in pairs or small groups.
After that: class discussion.

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Answer to question 5
The speaker is like a cloud and the daffodils are like humans.
This shows / stresses the bond between man and nature.

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6. What is the theme of this poem?
Do not use the 'standard' theme

Slide 24 - Mind map

Answer to question 6
Nature's beauty is uplifting.
Nature's beauty makes people happy.

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7. What makes this a Romantic poem?

First discuss in pairs or small groups.
After that: class discussion.

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Answer to question 7
It shows the beauty / divinity of nature and describes the feeling of the speaker about nature.

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8. What is the rhyme scheme?

Slide 28 - Mind map

Correct answer:
ABABCC DEDEFF EGEGHH IJIJBB

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I think I understand this poem well enough for the test.
Yes
No

Slide 30 - Poll

Continue
If you have answered yes, focus on your week task.

If you have answered no, please let me know what you do not understand (yet).

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