Daffodwndilly by A A Milne

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She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead." 

 

 

 

I. About the Poem

This poem written by Alan Alexander Milne.
I could not get too much information.

 

 

 

 

Works Cited （参考文献）

II. About the Poet

Alan Alexander Milne was born in London in 1882 the third and youngest son of a school headmaster. Milne won a highly competitive scholarship to Westminster school in 1893 and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1900.On graduation in 1903, Milne went to London and became a freelance journalist, publishing mostly sketches and pieces of light humor. Next he began to focus on children’s literature, achieving lasting fame with Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). During the 1930’s and 1940’s, he continued to write, although never equaling his earlier efforts. He died on January 31, 1956, at the age of seventy-four.

 

Works Cited （参考文献）
"A. A. Milne Essay - A. A. Milne World Literature Analysis - ENotes.com." Enotes.com. Enotes.com, n.d. Web. 05 May 2016.           

III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - personification(擬人化)

• giving human characteristics to something non human
• She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
  She wore her greenest gown;
  She turned to the south wind 
• In this poem,we feel like writing about women.But this poem personify daffodil as women.

B. Reaction Point - alliteration(頭韻を繰り返す)

• repetition of initial consonant sounds
• In this poem,repeated "She" and "And". It is rhyming.

C. Reaction Point - point of view(物語の観点)

• the perspective from which a story is told
• In this poem,story about coming of spring.The last sentence "Winter is dead." is expressed that the end of the winter.

D. My General Opinion
I like this poem. In this poem,I felt joy of daffodil. I like personification too.
My favorite sentence is "She turned to the south wind  And curtsied up and down."
A A Milne wrote a lot of children's literature, so It made me happy.