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Daffodils everywhere
ed years ago the English post Wiliam Wordeworth wrote 1 wander'd lonely as cout
poem thst exprasses a base ap of eo English Romane. I wos Thureday, 16 April 02,
Wiliam and Dorothy Wordsworth, the poets devoted, journal-wrting sister were walking home 10
Dave Cottons inthe Lake District. The wind war fierce, but the Wordsworth siblings were used 10
Stiding ong distances in foul weather They were in the woods close to the waterside when thay fist
‘lopped eye on a held of dafioale Mutering and dancing inthe breeze
‘What makes this pocm an exemple of Romantic thinking? Iti’ just that Wordsworth chooses to write
Mat m natural scone: I 1 he way he describes the cono ws it had human emotions For im. nature
not mary à neural mixture ol nanery, colour, plantes rocks, sll water and at I living force
that lose joy and esdnoss, shaves human pain and even ios 1 auto us human beings by show
dino beauty of ie.
Wordsworth’ home. Dove Cottage, is now ane af the most popular destinations inthe Lake Disc
You con go on 9 tour ef the garden which Willem planted with wild flowers and which survived in
Is back atd even alter thay disapneared from the ares. "Ho says sald nor if he hadnt been a pos,
fhe seat have been a Lorie lomgacapo gardener, says Alan King of the Wordeworth Test thw
Organisation tat looks aftr the corago and gardens.
The Lake Disic in the norh-west of England becomes particulary erowded during the sum
‘ont with tourists and ramburs angor fo enjoy he regions majestic valleys, Nils and sparking
tates, Wordsworty himself wos far from keon on tourist, which was quite apparent. He waning
ado to à dre e ova sights ne enjoyed 20 much, but wns frig the ati might be damaged
Sy too many visitors. He oppose the coming ofthe tra, and compaigned nthe 1840s against plan
18 ink the towne inthe ara Renal, Windermere and Koswick = hye
pace near Ulster, here Wordsworth saw the dafodil, is ho southernmost en ofthe ake
The el al and cala a hie turning point. There's 9 bay were Ihe tons have hac that sol eroded
by lave wter go that their roots ae shockingly exposed. You walk long from Wee to tre, hardly
‘Bring vo broathe, because you ar walking inte footprints of Miam and Dorothy rom two conturies
90. he frst clumps of daffodils appear, but they aren't ll yellow compete proudly evaying in e
taco. they're tiny wid dattes, most of them Zl green and unaponcd, ln clumps of six ur seven,
They ee grouped sound individual tees rather than collecting together
But os you look north, from beside a huge ancient oak, you realise this is what delighted the
ierdsworths: clump añer clump ofthe things, spread out to Tet and ight but coming together in
Your vision so that Uy form 2 bosamial, pal yollow earpel. What youre seeing at lat e nature
Yanstormed by human sight and imagination. For 6 second, you share tat revelation of Dorothy and
Wiliam Wordononivs, the gimpee of ponte, the canal mystery of English Romantic