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Works of William Wordsworth: To The Small Celandine

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

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
To The Small Celandine

The natural mystery of a flower is not the principal content of the poem.
Wordsworth praises the small celandine primarily for its humbleness, but his
tribute is not less for its bold, lavish generosity. Out of all the flowers
that he thinks of (stanza one), the poet takes the celandine as his own. The
comparison that he makes in the first stanza would identify the fact that the
celandine is a humble flower (one editor identifies the celandine as "common
pilewort"): "Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies," all have great public
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