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Comparison with 'The Thought-Fox' and 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'
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Comparison with 'The Thought-Fox' and 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' In 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' Wordsworth wrote the poem at the time when the spirit of 'romanticism' was strong. Romanticism was an artistic movement which celebrated the wonders of nature, the wonders of God's 'creation'. It stressed human emotion and the senses rather than logic and rationalism. The poet William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland. Wordsworth's mother died in 1778 when he was only eight years-old, and his father who had problems looking after him sent him to a grammar school some distance away. The first poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', is about a man who is 'wandering' alone in the woods 'o'er vales and hills' but then he see suddenly 'a host, of golden daffodils' they are everywhere 'beside the lake, beneath the trees'. They are also 'flutt'ring...
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