Tag: Introduction

Literature

A Short Analysis of Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Often known simply as ‘Daffodils’ or ‘The Daffodils’, William Wordsworth’s lyric poem that begins ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is, in many ways, the quintessential English Romantic poem. Its theme is the relationship between the individual and the natural world, though those daffodils […]

Literature

The Haiku: An Introduction

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) What is haiku? Or what is a haiku? Many of the things we think we know about the Japanese poetic form of the haiku are inaccurate, if not downright incorrect. The common perception, or understanding, of haiku might be summarised as follows: ‘The haiku […]