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COMPOSITION
While “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” matches Wordsworth’s description of poetic process in the preface to Lyrical Ballads, he actually composed the poem some years after the success of that anthology. In 1802 he spent some time in the English Lake District. On April 15 he and his sister Dorothy went for a walk near Ullswater lake. In her journal, Dorothy recounts the experience of seeing the daffodils:
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side, we fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore & that the little colony had so sprung up—But as we went along there were more & yet more & at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing. This wind blew directly over the Lake to them. There was here & there a little knot & a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity & unity & life of that one busy highway—We rested again & again. (85)
Dorothy’s long run-on sentences certainly suggest a “spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions.” She also mentions that it was a rather wet and windy day. Wordsworth leaves that out of his poem, but then he also doesn’t mention Dorothy’s presence, despite the fact that he seems to have relied on her description when he composed “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” two years after the event (1804). The poem was first published in 1807, in a collection titled Poems, in Two Volumes. At that point, the poem only had three stanzas. The second stanza was added in 1815.

2.3 Contribution of William Wordsworth to literatur
Contribution of William Wordsworth to Romantic Poetry
After all the poets of Romantic Age, Wordsworth is regarded as the greatest one. In fact, he is also considered as one of the greatest poets of all time, period. William Wordsworth was April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, United Kingdom, to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson. He is widely considered the founder and most central figure in English Romanticism.
As mentioned earlier, the genre ‘Romantic Poetry’ began with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and ST Coleridge. Through is poems, William Wordsworth demonstrated is immense love and reverence for nature, though his observations and perceptions about nature were in opposition to an earlier famous nature-influenced poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Pope observed nature with objectivity and analyses, an approach which came to be known as ‘Hyper-Individualism’. On the contrary, Wordsworth took a more comprehensive, yet affectionate approach to depict nature. He portrayed his love for nature in four stages, which I have discussed below: