I Wandered Lonely as Cloud
• Structure: four six-line stanzas; • iambic tetrameter; • rhyme scheme: ababcc; • theme: the harmony between things in
nature and the harmony between nature and the poet himself/ Nature' s beauty uplifts the human spirit. • Figures of speech: simile,metaphor, personification
• Comedies- As You Like It, The Merchants of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,The Taming of the Shrew,
Twelfth Night • Histories- Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry
① • Language: different poetic forms, such as the sonnet, the blank ② verse and the rhymed couplet. rich in vocabulary and idiom.
3.John Milespeare
• Works
• 37 plays • 2 long narrative poems • 154 sonnets
William Shakespeare
• Drama:
• Tragedies- Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet