Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World
BY:- W.B. Rands
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water around you curled,
And the wonderful grass on your breast,
World, you are beautifully dresses.
Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers to-day,
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
You are more than Earth, though you are such a dot:
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot !
BY:- W.B. Rands
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water around you curled,
And the wonderful grass on your breast,
World, you are beautifully dresses.
Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers to-day,
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
You are more than Earth, though you are such a dot:
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot !
Vocabulary:-
1. Great:- Large – big
2. Wide: - Big – extensive.
3. Curled:- Covered with
4. Breast:- Heart
5. Tremble: - To shake with excitement.
6. Whisper: - A soft voice.
7. Dot: - Very small speck or point.
Paraphrase:-
The poet in this poem is an admirer of the world and its beauty. He says that the world is so big, so great and beautiful. He believes that the world is a fine place. The poet describes the fine world as a person and as people are with a green covered in clothes such as seas and oceans. The world is covered also with a green grass.
In the second part, the poet compares between himself and the world. At the first he says that he is so small, if we compared him with world. But while he was praying, he hears a whisper that comes inside him and it tells him that, man is much more important than the world because Man has something which doesn’t exist in the world, because he can love and think but the world can not. So when God creates us, he concerned more of the man.
Figues of speech:-
Personification on:-
· “Grass on your breast.” The poet personifies nature as a beautiful lady who is
wearing a colourful dress.
· “World you are beautifully dressed” The poet personifies nature as a beautiful
lady who is wearing a beautiful dress.
· “ You can love and think”
Alliteration on:-
· “Wide- wonderful – world” Repetition of “W”
· “Tremble – think” Repetition of “ T”
· Whisper inside me seemed to say” Repetition of the sound “s”
Commentary:-
The poem consists of ten lines of verse. In the first five lines the poet emphasizes the idea of the greatness and largeness of the world.
The poet personifies the world .He imagined it to be a person with a human characteristics.
The rhyme scheme is quiet simple and traditional. (aa, bb, cc, dd, ee). The poet doesn’t make use of lots of figures of speech in this short poem. The language is simple and straight forward.
In the last two lines the poet, sums up his main idea; which is that Man is the greatest thing on the earth. Here the last two lines are much longer than the previous shorter ones and this makes a contrast.
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