Answer:
We see a noteworthy storm before the murder of Caesar. This shows that something tumultuous is about to happen. These are seen as portents from a classical point of view, of which Shakespeare knows. Also we see many things that go against nature - again these are portents that signify that not all is well. So, we see owls in the middle of the day, and lions who walk around Rome casually.
In short, odd things in nature or extreme things in nature are used to show uneasiness.
Explanation:
Both poems are similar because they are both about nature and are also presented in a sad
tone at first.
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is a lyrical poem and it depicts Wordsworth’s response to nature’s beauty while the haiku by Basho represents the
imagery of spring day.
Their structural difference is that the haiku only has three
lines with 5, 7, 5 syllables each line while “I wander lonely as a cloud” has a
stanza with six lines in iambic tetrameter.
Henry David Thoreau and during his time at Walden, Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. He withheld the tax to protest the existence of slavery and what he saw as an imperialistic war with Mexico. Released after a relative paid the tax, he wrote “Civil DisobedienceExternal” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”)
