Comparison of Two Daffodils: A Study of Perceptual Cognition of William Wordsworth and Robert Herrick

Vol-4 | Issue-07 | July-2017 | Published Online: 05 July 2017    PDF ( 210 KB )
Author(s)
Dr. Sagar Sureshbhai Vyas (M.A., Ph.D.) 1

1I/c Principal, R.B. Patel Arts and Commerce College, Sanand, Gujarat, (India)

Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to compare the two poems To Daffodils and The Daffodils of Robert Herrick and William Wordsworth respectively. Both the poem though composed on the same object called daffodils by two distinct poets differs in many ways in the presentation and treatment. However, both the poems share similarity to some extent. These two poems are compared on the basis of theme, rhyme scheme and style.

Keywords
Daffodils, theme. rhyme scheme, lexical features, syntactic features, ‘abcbddceae’, ‘ab ab cc’
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