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Write about the importance of memory in Wordsworth's "Daffodils" and Clarke's "Miracle on St. David's Day".
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Write about the importance of memory in Wordsworth's "Daffodils" and Clarke's "Miracle on St. David's Day" The first of the two poems, Wordsworth's "Daffodils" is about a man remembering that some daffodils cheered him up one day. The poem starts off with the person being described as a cloud and how he slowly joins a "host" of "golden" daffodils. But the reader does not know at first that this poem is actually a memory until further down in the poem. Throughout the poem Wordsworth refers back to the daffodils and makes a connection with other things like them such as stars. Wordsworth also depicts how the daffodils "dance". In the last verse the reader finally finds out that the poem is a recollection. Whilst the second of the two poems, "Miracle on St. David's Day" written by Gillian Clarke is about a mentally ill patient reciting Wordsworth's "Daffodils"...
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