Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, 2nd ed., ed. In some ways, it’s not difficult to analyse why. But the daffodils poem has in many ways become Wordsworth’s defining work. In this peaceful poem, William Wordsworth describes a walk he took through the countryside and his encounter with a field of golden daffodils. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ first appeared in print in 1807 in Wordsworth’s Poems in Two Volumes, which received largely negative reviews. The main idea of the poem is that the real experience with nature fills a person’s heart with happiness and brings wisdom. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. The poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Wordsworth shows the poet presenting his experience of looking at the daffodil flowers and experiencing a state of trance in the future with their memory. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. We fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. “When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side. Wordsworth shares his experience with nature to illuminate the simplicity of losing the chance to feel the serene beauty that nature has. In 1802, two years before the poem was written, Dorothy recorded this in her journal of 15 April 1802: Written in 1807, William Wordsworth’s poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud depicts the author’s perspective regarding nature and its ability to alter one’s feelings. This immortal little poem, first published in 1807, owes a lot to William’s sister Dorothy Wordsworth. The Romantics were also Pantheists, that is they believed that God was manifested in nature. It should be noted that life in the late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King George III, known - ironically given the terrible social conditions of the time - as the Romantic Era. This was a subject of particular interest to Wordsworth. A tenet of Romantic poetry is its focus on nature and man’s insignificance in comparison to the natural world. Wordsworth was one of the ‘big six’ Romantic Poets (Shelley, Keats, Coleridge and Byron. First two stanzas of I wandered lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth, first edition (1807) by William Wordsworth Wordsworth Grasmere 1804-1807 Two years later, William wrote his.
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