Wallace Stevens attempts to write in an emotionless and literal point of view in his poem "The Snowman", whereas William Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" displays quite the opposite, with countless metaphors and exaggerations of the reality. But which poem exhibits a more honest appreciation of nature? ... On a spectrum of the level of reality, these poems display the two extremes. ... The extent of analysis, allowed me to realize appreciation is closely tied to emotions. ... This proves that he himself understands the poem is unrealistic and dishone...

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as a representative poem for this discussion. ?... is a poem occasioned by the beginning of a new year and a new century. ... Although the situation of the poem is given to the reader in the past tense as a memory, we experience the poem as something the speaker is experiencing in the present. ... emanating from a concrete reality is where the poem becomes the most humane. ... The speaker in the poem is taking a look at the worst. ...

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