Comparison of The Thought-Fox and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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In 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' Wordsworth wrote the poem at the

time when the spirit of 'romanticism' was strong. Romanticism was an

artistic movement which celebrated the wonders of nature, the wonders

of God's 'creation'. It stressed human emotion and the senses rather

than logic and rationalism. The poet William Wordsworth was born on 7

April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland. Wordsworth's mother died in

1778 when he was only eight years-old, and his father who had problems

looking after him sent him to a grammar school some distance away.

The first poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', is about a man who is

'wandering' alone in the woods 'o'er vales and hills' but then he see

suddenly 'a host, of golden daffodils' they are everywhere 'beside the

lake, beneath the trees'. They are also 'flutt'ring and dancing in the

breeze.' There are so many of the daffodils that 'stretched' along a

'never-ending line' he is 'gay' at the sight of so many daffodils.

In 'The Thought-Fox' Ted Hughes the writer of the poem was in his

early 20's when he wrote the poem in 1955. It was one of Ted Hughes's

earliest poems. He was bornon 17th August 1930 and he died on 28th

October 1998, aged 68. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 19th December

1984 in succession to the late JohnBetjeman.

The other poem, 'The Thought-Fox', 'The Thought-Fox' is a poem about

writing a poem. Its external action takes place in a room late at

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