Hello Fellow Humans

* Can I compare two poems?

* How does the poet handle/use nature in their poems

In daffodils, it is about the poet who starts off in a field of daffodils and describes what he sees as he looks on; this is shown ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o’er vales and hills’ , just by reading through that we get a suggestion that he’s light footed . When he states ‘as a cloud’ gives a sense that he’s in a dream or imagining. It is then concluded with him waking up on a couch realising it was just his imagination. This is shown in the quote ‘they flash upon the inward eye’

In Patrolling Barnegat, it is about a wild storm that breaks out by the seaside named Barnegat

Whitman begins with the repetition of 'wild', leaving us in no doubt as to the mood of the poem. In the quotation 'roar of the gale’,it describes the ferocity of the wind, but there is also 'incessant undertone muttering' a more subtle sound that never lets up. Sound is again emphasised in the third line with 'Shouts of demoniac laughter' this emphasises on the evilness and the harshness of the wind. We are then informed on the third line that it is set at midnight as it says 'Waves, air, midnight', this creates the atmosphere of darkness. 'On beachy slush and sand spirits of snow fierce slanting'; the repetition of the‘s’ gives an impression of the sound of melting snow hitting the ground. The final line of the poem refers again to the 'savage trinity' of line four, in other words the waves, the air and the night. The patrollers are watching all of these 'warily', vigilant, knowing that disaster may strike at any moment. The storm 'steadily' and 'slowly', and once again the sound is described as a 'hoarse roar', rough and fierce. By using the words ‘slowly’ and ‘steadily’ uses iambic pentameter to reflect on the slow pace. There is no real rhyme scheme, but each line ends with an -ing...