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    Panpacific University North Philippines “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

    Tayug, Pangasinan By William Wordsworth


    SY 2017-2018

    POETRY AND FICTION


    I wandered lonely as a cloud
    That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
    LICTAWA, Jasmin Charis L. When all at once I saw a crowd,
    A host, of golden daffodils;
    Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
    Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
    “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud”
    By: William Wordsworth Continuous as the stars that shine
    And twinkle on the milky way,
    BACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR They stretched in never-ending line
    ▬ Born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Along the margin of a bay:
    Cumberland, England. Then thousand saw I at a glance,
    ▬ He became England’s poet laureate in Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
    1843, a role he held until his death in 1850.
    ▬ His mother died when he was 7 and he was The waves beside them danced; but they
    an orphan at 13. Despite these losses he did Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
    well at Hawkshead Grammar and studied in A poet could not be gay,
    Cambridge University and graduated in the In such a jocund company:
    year 1791. I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
    What wealth the show to me had brought:

    Did you know? For oft, when on my couch I lie


    In vacant or in pensive mood,
    Worsworth was not only
    a poet but also was a spy They flash upon that inward eye
    and was surveilled by a In which is the bliss of solitude;
    government agent. And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils.

    BACKGROUND OF THE POEM

    ▪ At the end of the 18th century, poet William


    Wordsworth helped found the Romantic
    movement in English literature and wrote “I
    Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”

    ♦ This poem was inspired by an event on April


    15, 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister
    Dorothy came across a “long belt” of daffodils.
    ♦ Written some time between 1804 and 1807
    ♦ It was first published in 1807 in Poems in
    Two Volumes and a revised version was
    published in 1815.

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