Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ALONE I wander at the midnight hour...
...many sonnets and odes are there in which we have to wander through endless similes and comparisons to reach a point which is generally blunted by the very additions which are meant to adorn it! It is undeniable that a certain amount of figurative language is beautiful in a poem; indeed, if used with taste and skill, it may constitute the poem itself; but how much more true feeling there is in a sentiment when plainly and simply expressed, than when it is encumbered with an excess of figurative language! For instance, compare the two expressions: "Wilt thou remember...
...wander o'er the river in my birchen bark canoe...
...whene'er his hand would wander...
Wild bees wander murmuring...