Sylvia Stults' "Warned" vs William Wordsworth's
"I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud"
Sydney Atkins & Bre Able
Sources
Stults, Sylvia. “Warned.” Family Friend Poems,
www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/warned. Accessed 22 May 2019.
Wordsworth, William. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud. Accessed 22 May 2019.
So, what can we do?
- Use environmental safe products
- Compost
- Dispose of trash properly
- Recycle everything you can
- Don't litter
Contrast
Rather than talk positively about the Earth, "Warned" seems to speak negatively about issues pertaining to pollution.
Quotes
"Ocean floors sandy white
Now littered, brown, pollution's plight"
"And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils."
Comparison
One looks at the beauty taken from flowers, whereas the other tells how there is beauty, but how we are destroying it.
- describe similar scenery
- talk of a certain topic, then at the very end, explains a different or opposing one.
- our fault for pollution & vacant thoughts can be turned around
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
- peaceful, dreamy tone
- describes scenery of
- daffodil by a lake
- starry night
- ocean
"Warned" By Sylvia Stults
Quotes
- dark, damaging tone
- "pollution"
- positive then negative
- we are at fault
"In vacant or in pensive mood,"
"And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils."
Quotes
" As they say, you reap what you've sown So let us plant a better seed"
"Consider yourself warned of that fatal day"