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Works of William Wordsworth: To The Daisy

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

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Elliot, John W.
Affiliation: Assistant Professor Of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University

To The Daisy

Stanza one: The poet recalls his youth when he, to use the words of
"Tintern Abbey," "like a roe / . . . bounded o'er the mountains, by the
sides / Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, / Wherever nature
led. . . ." That was a time when he was "Most pleased when most
uneasy. . . ." He refers to the time in his youth when he felt the terror of
the beautifully awesome in nature, when there was the delight of fear in his
responses ...

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