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Works of William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

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

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

One may find it interesting to compare the account of the excursion that
Dorothy Wordsworth gives in her Journal on 15 April 1802, with the poem that
Wordsworth wrote to commemorate the occasion. She talks of daffodils seen on
a walk in the vicinity of Ullswater. Wordsworth reduces the party who saw the
daffodils to one: the poem begins with the first person personal pronoun. He
tells in the poem the extent of his joy while he was actually among the
daffodils, but the wealthier experience seems to have been in the ...

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