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 : covered with – wrapped up Breast : 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 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 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 “world you are beautifully dressed” 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: Wide, wonderful, world Line 2: With, wonderful, water Line 6: tremble, think Line 8: seemed, say