Page 2 - Lesson Notes

visualelements.They are essentially tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a
poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.

Let’s see few examples because what explains better than an example :

 I wondered lonely as a child. -[Wordsworth:The daffodil]

 Thou dost float and run

Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. -[P.B Shelley:To a skylark]

 Red as a rose is she - [S.T coleridge :The Rime of the ancient mariner]

 I am constant as the northern star -[Shakespeare:Julius Caesar]

 I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! -[P.B Shelley:Ode to the west wind]

 I will drink life to the lees - [Alfred Lord Tennyson:Ulysses]

 Men are April when they woo, December when they wed -[Shakespeare:As you like It]

 O listen! for the vale profound

Is overflowing with the sound [-Wordsworth:The solitary Reaper]