Great,wide,beautiful wonderful world

W. B. RANDS

Great ,wide ,beautiful ,wonderful world, With the wonderful water around you curled, • And the wonderful grass on your beast World, you are beautifully dressed.

• • Ah, you bare so great and I am so small I tremble to think of you , world, at al, • • •

And yet when I said my prayers to-day A whisper inside me seemed to say • • “you are more than Earth, thought you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the earth cannot! • •

Vocabulary:

Curled Breast

: covered with – wrapped up : chest •

Tremble

: to shake with excitement •

Whisper

: a soft voice •

Dot

: very small point •

Wide

: very large - broad • •

Paraphrase

In this poem the poet is an admired of the world and it’s beauty . He says that the world is so big, so great & beautiful . he believes that the world is a fine place. The • poet describes the fine world as a person, and as a people are wrapped up in clothes, so the world which is wrapped up in wonderful grass , green fields and valleys

In the second part, starting from line 7, however the idea is changed. The poet compares between him self and the world. At first, he admits that he is so small compared to the world. But while praying he hears a whisper that tells him that Man is much more important than the world as Man has which does not exist in the world man can think and love but the world cannot. This idea is summed up in the last two lines “you are more than earth, thought you are such a dot, you con love and think but the earth cannot !”

commentary

a) the poem consists of ten lines of verse “world you are beautifully dressed” • • b) in the first line the poet emphasizes the • greatness of the world using many adjectives: great, wide, beautiful, wonderful c)the poet personifies the world, describing it as a person with human features The rhyme scheme in this poem is quite simple; aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, •

Figures of speech

a) personification: “with the grass in your breast” • world you are beautifully dressed b) Alliteration: it gives internal music in the poem Line 1:

W

ide,

w

onderful,

w

orld Line 2:

W

ith,

w

onderful,

w

ater Line 6:

t

remble,

t

hink Line 8:

s

eemed,

s

ay