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William Wordsworth is one of our greatest poets (in my opinion) and he wrote my favourite poem, called "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" over one hundred years ago.
Wordsworth was inspired to write the poem when he was living in a cottage in the Lake District. Do you remember our assembly on the Lake District? Test yourself!
(1) What part of England is the Lake District in? (north, north west, east. south west etc)(2) Which county is it in?
(3) William Wordsworth was what kind of poet?
(4) Can you name the highest mountain in England, which is located in the Lake District?
(5) Do you remember the name of the deepest lake and longest lake in England?
(6) What word do they use for mountain in that part of England?
Read the first two verses of Wordsworth's poem and tell me what you think.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a
cloud
That floats on high o'er
vales and hills,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.
Continuous as the stars that
shine
And twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
I absolutely love that poem there is a lot of meaning to it.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed reading it Karima.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is so lovely!! William Wordsworth was a really lovely poet!
ReplyDeleteHe is a great poet, Abeer, you are correct. Try and find another poem that Wordsworth wrote and tell me all about it.
DeleteHe has done quite alot of poems. I searched one up and I really liked it. It is called A Night-Piece and one more which was To A Butterfly and this one! I liked all of his poems.
DeleteDear Mr Wright,
ReplyDeleteHere are my answers on the Lake District.
1. The Lake District is in the Northwest part of England.
2. The Lake District is in the county of Cumbria.
3. Wordsworth was known as a Lake Poet; the other Lake Poets were Coleridge and Southey.
4. Scafell Pike is the tallest mountain in England, located in the Lake District, which is 978m (3,209ft).
5. The longest lake in the Lake District is Windermere, and the deepest is Wastwater.
6. The word used for mountains is the Lake District is ‘fell’.
Dear Mr Wright,
ReplyDeleteHere is my explanation of the first two verses:
The poet is taking a desolate stroll through the lush valleys and hills, and he compares himself to a lonely floating cloud. He came upon a never-ending line of golden daffodils, lined by the bay beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the wind.
They seem to him to be as continuous as the twinkling stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and stretching infinitely along the margin of the bay. He sees thousands of them, dancing gracefully with their heads tossing in the wind.
William Wordsworth was one of the greatest nature poets, and he came upon these daffodils during a walk by the shores of the Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. Apart from beautiful descriptive language, he has used similes in this poem by comparing himself to a lonely cloud, and the belt of daffodils to the Milky Way. He has also used hyperbole (purposeful exaggeration) when he says he saw 10,000 daffodils at a glance. He has used personification to describe the daffodils, which means that he has imagined them as human beings. An example of this is when he uses the word ‘crowd’ to describe the daffodils, and thinks that they are ‘fluttering’, ‘dancing’ and ‘tossing their heads’. I loved reading this poem, and also read another poem by Wordsworth with my mum called ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’.
I love this poem and I am sure that I would love to read the rest of his poems too . I have been to the Lake District before and it is really nice and beautiful . There are a lot of hills and mountains and I would love to go back again
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