英国文学诗歌赏析

I wandered lonely as a cloud Writer: William Wordsworth

Genre(体裁)：lyric

Tone: depression and disconsolateness at the very beginning. But as he catches sight of daffodils stretching as far as the eyes can see and finds himself in the midst of nature, his loneliness turns into relaxation and joy. Thus the shift of the poet’s mood from sadness to happiness manifests the theme --- the great influence of nature upon human being.

Rhyme: He employs masculine rhyme in “a, b, a, b, c, c” pattern to receive emphasis as a musical effect. (e.g. “cloud” (a), “hills” (b), “crowd” (a), “daffodils” (b), “trees”

(c), “breeze” (c) i n stanza 1. He arranges his poem in lines of iambic tetrameter in the main with alternation of iambic trimeter.

Rhetorical devices(修辞手法): He also achieves musical quality by the management of alliteration（头韵）(e.g. “That floats on high o’er vales and hills” in line 2 and “Beside the lake, beneath the trees” in line 5) and assonance（类韵）(e.g. “beneath the trees in line 5” and “ They stretched in never-ending line” in line 9) and

consonance（一致）(e.g. “ vales and hills” in line 2 ). Besides the repetition of sounds, the poet also makes his poem a strong appeal for us in language that is rhythmical.

Ode to the west wind

Writer: Percy Shelley

Genre: Lyric

Tone: eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from reality.

Rhyme: In each stanze,the first 12 lines use terza rima （三行诗）.The last two lines use couplet（偶句）.aba bab cdc ded ee.

Rhetorical devices: Personification.