ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -It is one of England’s most famous poems. Wordsworth wrote it in 1804, remembering a walk with his sister two years earlier. It was first published in 1807.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth published the first version of this poem, ‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’, in 1807, in a collection called ‘Poems in Two Volumes’. He altered it several times, but the final version was published in his ‘Collected Poems’ in 1815.

Detailed explanation-3: -"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (also commonly known as “Daffodils") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by a forest encounter on 15 April 1802 between he, his younger sister Dorothy and a “long belt” of daffodils.

Detailed explanation-4: -He and his sister were walking in the English countryside and came across a stunning belt of daffodils. Wordsworth wrote this poem to capture the feeling that came over him in that moment. The poem was first published in 1807 in the collection “Poems in Two Volumes, ” and a revised version was published in 1815.