Assignment

1. What do poets do when they personify subjects? Choose a poem from the unit that uses personification, identify the subject that is personified in the poem, and describe how it is personified. Then explain how personification helps the poet to convey his ideas about the natural world. Write your answer in a paragraph of at least five sentences.

2. Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "To a Butterfly" and Coleridge's "Sonnet to the River Otter" and "Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village" all deal with memories. Choose two of these poems, and explain for each poem what the speaker suggests about how the natural world affects people's memories. How does this function of the natural world fit with the Romantic view of nature? Write your answer in two paragraphs of at least four sentences each.

2. Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "To a Butterfly" and Coleridge's "Sonnet to the River Otter" and "Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village" all deal with memories. Choose two of these poems, and explain for each poem what the speaker suggests about how the natural world affects people's memories. How does this function of the natural world fit with the Romantic view of nature? Write your answer in two paragraphs of at least four sentences each.