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Enjoying English Poetry Course Essay Student’s Name: Class Number: Date: 2015/12/21 Wordsworth’s View on Nature Based on the Reading of I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Che Hongyu Wordsworth was a British poet in the 19th century and the poet laureate since 1843 till his death in 1850. He was born and grew up in the English Lake District and the beautiful scenery of his hometown nurtured his deep love for nature and his purpose of praising nature in his work. He called himself “Prophet of Nature” in The Prelude, and claimed that prophets of nature “will speak a lasting inspiration, sanctified by reason, blest by faith: what we have loved, others will love and we will teach them how” (Wordsworth, 1979: 482), by which he means he, as a nature worshipper, will write about his love for nature in his work and show the readers what he loves about nature, so as to teach them how to love nature and evoke their love for nature. This essay will analyze the poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud from the aspects of writing background, metrical patterns, figures of speech and images so as to examine William Wordsworth’s view on nature. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written in 1804 and believed to be one of the most beautiful poems written on nature. The poet wrote this poem based on his experience on April 15th, 1802. That day, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth were walking in the Lake District, to quote Dorothy in Grasmere Journals, “It was a threatening misty morning-but mild. We set off after dinner…The wind was furious we thought we must have returned…We first rested in the large Boat-house, then under a furze Bush…The wind seized our breath the Lake was rough. We rested again in the Water Millock Lane…We got over into a field to avoid some cows…When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side” (Abrams, 2000: 391). It was clear that that day was a windy one, Wordsworth and his sister set of