English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1124 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
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The idea
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," written in eighteen-oh-four, recalls a host of golden daffodils that Wordsworth and Dorothy saw beside Ullswater. Its last stanza enacts the Preface: the daffodils "flash upon that inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude." Dorothy's journal records the walk.
In practice
Daffodils remembered on the couch.
Where people slip
The poem is about memory.
Your place on the trail
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