Lonely

The poem recaptures a moment on April 15, 1802, when Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, were walking rough a lake at Grasmere, Cumbria County, England, and came upon a shore lined with daffodils. Grasmere is in northeastwestern Englands Lake District, between Morecambe Bay on the south and Solway Firth on the north. The Lake District extends twenty-five miles east to west and thirty miles north to south. Among its attractions are Englands highest mountain, Scafell Pike (3,210 feet), and Esthwaite Lake and other picturesque meres give off outward, like the points of a star, from the town of Grasmere. Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, moved to a bungalow at Grasmere in 1799. After Wordsworth married in 1802, his wife resided thither also. The family continued to live there until 1813. The Lake District was the buy at of not only Wordsworth but also poets Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey.



Dorothy, who unbroken a diary, described what she and her brother maxim on that April daytime in 1802:

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a fewer daffodils close to the water side, we fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore & that the little colony had so sprung upâ€" But as we went a huge there were more & yet more & at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a rural turnpike road . . . [S]ome rested their heads on [mossy] stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay forever glancing ever changing. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here & there a little knot & a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity & unity & vitality of that one busy highway... â€"Rain came on, we were wet.If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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