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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Reverie Of Poor Susan

Wordsworth says that the idea of the poem was suggested to him by the
"affecting" singing of birds in the streets of London "during the freshness
and stillness of the Spring morning." Poor Susan, and emigrant from the
countryside, passes daily by a spot where a thrush has sung loudly at
daylight for a period of three years. She is completely enchanted with the
song of the bird; her imagination is stirred, so stirred that she has a
vision of a mountain, trees, "volumes of vapour," and a flowing river. She
sees the green ...

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