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William Wordsworth’s `The Daffodils' compared to Gillian Clarke’s ‘Miracle on St David's Day’
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In this essay I will attempt to compare two very contrasting poems, William Wordsworth's `The Daffodils' which was written in pre 1900s and Gillian Clarke's 'Miracle on St David's Day', written in the 20th century. Strangely enough Gillian Clarke's 'Miracle on St David's day' was actually inspired by 'The Daffodils'. In 1804 William Wordsworth wrote 'a masterpiece', two years after his experience with the daffodils, while the poem "Miracle on St. David's Day" was written by Gillian Clarke around 1980, one hundred and seventy-six years after The Daffodils was. Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, and raised around the mountains of Cumberland around the River Derwent. It was here that he would have been in 'pure communication' with nature and this was probably the inspiration for most of his poems. Gillian Clarke was born in Wales in 1937. Her parents spoke only Welsh...
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