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Poetry: Comparing Wordsworth and Clark
Both `Daffodils' by William Wordsworth and `Miracle on St David's day' written by Gillian Clark are about the beauty of nature and the power of memory, they were both written about true events that had happened in the poets lives. In many ways the poems are different like the style and overall effect but they have some points, which make them similar aswell. Both poets were inspired to write about their experiences, which involved daffodils.
William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the Lake District. He is one of the world's most accomplished and influential of England's romantic poets. He describes his poems as "emotion recollected in tranquillity." The poem `Daffodils' was written in 1804 in recollection to a host of daffodils he had seen 2 years earlier in 1802. The daffodils he saw obviously had a great impact on Wordsworth as he has written about them as if they were human...
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