Unit 4[THE DAFFODILS] (WILLIAM WORDSWORTH)

Pre-Reading:

• What is nature ?
• How do you enjoy the beauty of the nature ?
• Would you like to visit a place of natural beauty? 

Reading:

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 star 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.

The waves beside them danced,but they 

Out-did he sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company :

I gazed-and gazed-but little thought 

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft,when on my couch I lie 

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon  that inward eye 

Which is the bliss of soltiude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the DAFFODILS.

About the Poet:

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at cockermouth in  Cambria. He was a major English poet. In 1799,Wordsworth settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District. Wordsworth's well-known poem,The Daffodils was written at Dove Cottage.Wordsworth died on 23 April 1850.