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Wordsworth and the Romantic Turn to Nature — Homework
Read "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (William Wordsworth) at least twice before answering.
- 1.Name two forces Romanticism developed partly in reaction against.
- 2.Quote the poem's phrase describing where the memory of the daffodils later appears.
- 3.Explain in two or more sentences what the poem's "real subject" turns out to be, based on its final stanza.
- 4.In four or more sentences, describe an ordinary scene from your own life that has returned to your memory unexpectedly, connecting it to Wordsworth's claim about attention and recollection.
- 5.Explain why a Romantic poet might choose an ordinary walk rather than a dramatic event as a poem's subject.
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