The poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth wrote about their personal experience with nature one morning. By looking at William Wordsworth’s emotional attachment to nature in his poem, and Dorothy Wordsworth’s direct and descriptive journal entry, we can see how one writer romanticizes the imagery of nature and the other honing in on the detailed images of nature.
First, we look at the first stanza of William Wordsworth’s poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and the way it helps the reader become connected with his emotions. In the poem, Wordsworth revisits the memory of wandering and discovering a field of beautiful daffodils by a lake. William Wordsworth and his sister both witness the natural environment simultaneously, but experience it quite differently. In the first line of the poem Wordsworth writes, “ I wandered
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In her journal she reveals, “The hawthorns are black and green, the birches here and there greenish but there is yet more of purple to be seen on the Twigs” (The Grasmere Journal). It is a simple fact she writes down later in her journal. A helpful way to keep a record of that moment, or even save it as memory can weaken over time. In another note the writer states, “The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea. Rain came on—we were wet when we reached Luffs” (The Grasmere Journal). What is the purpose of Dorothy Wordsworth’s constant and thorough observation of the landscape? It allows her readers to gain an in-depth insight into her mind, so by writing things down Dorothy Wordsworth teaches us that writing helps people to really see and be present in the beauty of his/her surroundings. Now that we’ve seen the similarity in William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth’s writings, we can understand how memory plays an important role that allows them to relive their