Daffodils solitary reaper william wordsworth

His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworthto whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in when the ship of which he was captain, the Earl of Abergavennywas wrecked off the south coast of England; and Christopherthe youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Posted by interestingliterature The best Wordsworth poems W. In he became the UK Poet Laureate, and wrote barely a word more. But in his lifetime he wrote a great amount of poetry, in various forms and modes.

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This sonnet, written inpraises the beauty of London in the early morning light, as the poet stands on Westminster Bridge admiring the surrounding buildings. London, even by the early nineteenth century, was a world of industrialisation, smog that is, smoky fog, created by industrial activityas well as the centre of government and empire, two things that came under heavy scrutiny by the early Romantic poets.

Yet the London of early morning is serene and still, and it is this quiet scene that Wordsworth praises here. If this excerpt whets your appetite for the whole poem, you can read that here. In this sonnet, Wordsworth addresses the poet John Miltonexpressing the wish that Milton were still alive, because his country, England, needs him now.

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England has become stagnant and corrupt in all quarters. Everyone has become selfish. Only Milton, it seems, can restore England to its former greatness, by restoring the virtues that it has lost.

The poem is one of the great hymns to tranquillity, quiet contemplation, and self-examination in all of English literature. Philip Larkin once recalled hearing this poem recited on BBC radio, and having to pull over to the side of the road, as his eyes had filled with tears.

It remains a powerful poem meditation on death, the loss of childhood innocence, and the way we tend to get further away from ourselves — our true roots and our beliefs — as we grow older.

As well as writing odes and short lyrics, Wordsworth could also turn his hand to the ballad, as this poem demonstrates.Summary of Daffodils by William Wordsworth: Introduction. The poem was written in the year It was first published in Poems in Two Volumes, in The very starting line of the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” informs the poet’s profound sentiments of being left alone.

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Notes on bibliography. 2. A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND FOR THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: THE PRE-ROMANTIC PERIOD (BEFORE ).

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