This document provides an analysis of rhetorical devices used in poems by William Wordsworth. It begins with biographical information about Wordsworth, including his birthdate, parents, and date of death. It then analyzes specific poems, identifying and explaining metaphors, personification, repetition, similes, and other literary devices used. For example, it notes Wordsworth's use of personification in "My heart leaps up" and his repetition of "so" in another poem. Overall, the document examines Wordsworth's stylistic techniques through analyzing examples from his works.

1. Intro To Classical Poetry
( Chaucer to Pope )

2. Rhetorical Interpretation
of
William Wordsworth poems
Presented to : Sir Numan
Presented by: Maryam Ilyas
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3. Biography of William Wordsworth
1770___1850
• William Wordsworth was born on 17
April,1770 in Cockermouth.
• His Mother died when he was 8 year.
• Father: John Wordsworth (1741-1783)
• Mother: Ann Cookson Wordsworth
(1748-1778)
• He became England's poet laureate in
1843
• At the age of 80, he died on April 23,
1850.

5.  Personification:
“My heart leaps up”
The poet’s heart jumps when he sees a rainbow
 Paradox:
“the Child is a father of the Man”
The poet uses a statement which seems to hold opposite meaning, yet
turns out to have a reasonable & sensible aim.
 Repetition:
“So was it when my life began,
So is it now I a man,
So be it when I shall grow old,”
The word “so” is repeated three times.

7.  Simile:
“I wandered lonely as a cloud.”
He compares his loneliness with a single cloud.
“Continues as the stars that shine.”
Wordsworth compares the endless row of daffodils with
countless stars.
 Personification:
“When all at once I saw a crowd.”
The crowd shows the number of daffodils.
“Tossing their heads and sprightly dance.”
It shows that the Daffodils are humans that can dance.
“In a jocund company.”
he considered the daffodils as his buoyant company.

8.  Alliteration:
“I gazed and gazed”
the use of /g/ sound
“What wealth the show to me had brought.”
the use of /w/
 Assonance:
“Ten thousand I saw at a glance”
the sound of /a/
“They stretched in never-ending.”
/e/ sound
 Consonance:
“what wealth the show to me had brought”
the sound of /t/
“in vacant or in pensive.”
/n/ sound
 Metaphor:
“They flash upon that inward eye.”
“inward eye” represents the sweet memory of daffodils.

9.  Imagery:
“lonely as a cloud”
“ a crowd”
“never-ending line”
”milky way”
“jocund company.”
These descriptions help the reader to imagine or feel the same joy
felt by the speaker.

11.  simile:
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
in the lines comparing her eyes and hair to twilight:
 Metaphor:
comparing the woman of the poem implicitly to a phantom, apparition, and spirit
without use of explicit comparison words such as "like" or "as.“
 imagery:
the comparison of the woman to “twilight” there is no actual
description of her physical appearance.
 Amplification:
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill
one element of praise or noble characteristic on top of another,