Poems usually have deep meanings in which should be carefully interpreted by the reader. In the poems "Noon Walk On The Asylum Lawn," by Anne Sexton and "Daffodils," by William Wordsworth, the reader can find similarities and differences between them. The poems compare in a way that both are in a state of isolation and depression and have natural imagery involved; they can also be contrasted as the scenes differ from a place of peace and of paranoia, with no safe place.
In the poem "Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn," the state of isolation and depression is shown when she talks about how she's suspicious of everything and that the world is full of enemies. The third line of every stanza is composed of a verse from the psalm 23:4 in which talks about the guidance of the Lord, directly contradicting to the way the author uses it in her poem. In the poem "Daffodils", the person "wandered lonely as a cloud" (line 1) showing state of isolation and as the author described "when on my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye, which is the bliss of solitude" (line 19-21) showing also a sign of depression. In both poems, natural imagery is involved. In the "Noon Walk On the Asylum Lawn", Anne Sexton uses natural imagery as the sources of fear for the person in the poem. The person is suspicious of "the summer sun ray" (line 1) that "sucks the air and looks around for me" (line 4-5). The person is also suspicious of a tree in which the sunray shifts through. Anne uses personification to talk about how "the grass speaks" (line 6) and how the person can hear green chanting all day" (line 7). The "Daffodils" poem uses natural imagery when William talks about a cloud "that floats on high o'er vales and crowd". He also used personification to describe "a host, of golden daffodils; beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze" (line 4-6).
