Casca:
a common slave—you know him well by sight—
held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
like twenty torches joined; and yet his hand,
not sensible of fire, remained unscorched. .
and there were drawn
upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
transformèd with their fear, who swore they saw
men all in fire walk up and down the streets.
and yesterday the bird of night did sit
even at noonday upon the market-place,
hooting and shrieking. .
for i believe they are portentous things
unto the climate that they point upon.

portentous – adj. predicting the future.

what does this passage foreshadow?

a)rome will continue to prosper, and all citizens will be happy.
b)rome will suffer revenge at the hand of a slave.
c)rome will suffer danger and destruction.
d)rome will find a renewed peace once the bird of night leaves the market-place.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human

stating you point whats is aking you to write about?