![]() ![]() When surrounded by a crowd, as in London, he feels lonely and isolated. ![]() ![]() When the speaker is alone, he finds himself feeling entirely connected to nature, to God, and therefore to the people around him. One of the major instances of situational irony in the text is that of solitude and connection. Metaphors include "my life became a floating island," "every word they uttered was a dart," "My business was upon the barren sea," and "the horizon of my mind enlarged." Alliteration and Assonance Similes include "like a peasant I pursued," "to patriotic and domestic love analogous," the recurring "like a dream," "happy as the birds," "as a man, who, when his house is built.In impotence of mind, by his fireside, rebuild it to his liking," "as a kitten when at play," and "I was no further changed/Than as a clouded, not a waning, moon." One of the text's more elaborate similes occurs at the opening of Book Ninth, when the speaker muses: "As oftentimes a river, it might seem,/Yielding in part to old remembrances,/Part swayed by fear to tread an onward road/That leads dirct to the devouring sea,/Turns, and will measure back his course, far back,/Towards the very regions which he crossed/In his first outset so have we long time/ Made motions retrograde." In Paris, meanwhile, the speaker looks "as doth a man/Upon a volume whose contents he knows/Are memorable, but from him locked up." ![]()
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