To Daffodils

To Daffodils

                                  by Robert Herrick

Fair Daffidils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attained his non.

        stay, stay

Until the hasting day 

Has run

But to the even song:

And,having prayed together,we

Will go with you along. 

We have shout time to stay, as you

We have as shout a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anythig.

 We die.

As your hours do, and dry 

Away 

Like to the summer's rain, 

Or as the pearls of morning's dew, 

Ne'er to be found again. 

Daffodils

I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

                                 by William Wordworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud 

That floats on high o'er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle in the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay;

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced;but they

Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company;

I gazed-and gazed-but little thought;

What wealth the show to me had brought;

For oft when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude

And then my heart with pleasure fills

                                         And dances with the dfaffodils.

English in literature

In November, a cold, silent stranger, whom the doctors call Mr pneumonia, moved quietly about the colony, touching one here and one there with his icy fingers. Mr pneumonia was not a polite old gentleman. Little Johns, her blood thinned by the warm California weather, was no match for that red-faced, short-breathed, old fellow. And so he touched Johns with his icy fingers,too; and she lay ill, scarcely moving on her old iron bed.."

Working period

In the post-war period, women started joining the workforce, contributing to family income, and thus started exercising and influence on family affairs. Previously, authority in the family rested on the husband who was the decision maker in all matters. But women, with their economic power,started influencing decisions about important family matters. In developed countries now, household work is shared by both husbands and wives, and outdoor activities like shopping and taking children to school, to doctors or for recreation are done equally by both husbands and wives. Large extended families have given, and are still giving place to small, nuclear families.

Chinging trends

In the pre-industrial feudal society, both husbands and wives worked in the fields outside the home.However, in the industrial period, women were segregated from out-of-home productive work. The hearth became the place for them, so cooking, cleaning, washing, giving birth and rearing children became their jobs. Men became the wage-earners and all other outdoor activities became their responsibility.

Changing trends

The present age is marked not only by the importance of the family as an economic and welfare institution but also by its increasing importance as an arrangement for socialising and raising children and for the psychological support of adults. There has been a wide disintegration of large kin groups and an intensification of relationships within the unclear family. Moreever, the world is seeing an increasing association of women with earning and out-of-home activities.

Bringing about a difference

Becoming educated is probably the most significant change that you can introduce into your life. It is the locomotive that drives much of the economic development throughout the world,and it is the vehicle for personal success used by generation after generation  of people in highly developed nations of the world.