Thursday, March 12, 2009

Wordsworth's Nature Love-Closer view

Everyone has perception about love in their lives. I too have and still persisting. We perceive this love in various forms, for instance-Nature, the greatest form and accessible to every living with perceptible senses.

William Wordsworth is worth remembering for his poems on Nature and is popularly known as 'Nature Poet'. We have read, voluntarily or forcefully, in the least one of his poems and includes, the famous one, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'.

http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/William_Wordsworth/7870

It is worth by-hearting in school days because of its expression of thoughts, sense of happiness and words woven to make even a school boy of 12 years can imagine the scenic beauty descripted. We see a glorified art of beauty through this poem.

On the contrary, critically analysing, his sister Dorothy's Journal is also worth reading. the excerpt-Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal - Thursday 15 April 1802. She writes about their walk through the Glencoyne Bay called the Ullswater which is said to be the inspiration in writing this famous poem.

*Excerpt from Dorothy's journal:

http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/2902-William-Wordsworth--I-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud-

'When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water side. We fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and more and 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 country turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing.

This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. We rested again and again. The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea'.

Astonished as I was, while reading her excerpts agree that publication might have released this poem, 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' as one of the Wordworth's poetry collection. But, there are rumors that be by any chance that Dorothy Wordsworth, under the influence of her brother, would have written the poem.

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