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Works of William Wordsworth: I Travelled Among Unknown Men

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

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
I Travelled Among Unknown Men

We can feel Wordsworth's homesickness for England powerfully in this
poem; let us recall that all the Lucy poems were written during Wordsworth's
sojourn in Germany in the winter of 1798, a stay in a foreign land that found
the poet continually nostalgic for all the joys of English soil. In this poem
Wordsworth is promising that when once he has returned home, he will never
leave England again. Lucy figures in the poem because the poet loves England
more for her being part of it. The lands in the first stanza are ...

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