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    “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is a poem written by William Wordsworth which is known as daffodils. It was published in 1815 with a new revision after realizing there were words that needed to be changed in Poet in Two Volumes edition (Abishek, 2013). This poem is one of the examples of romantic era. I love this poem because the content is related to nature. It is true with the statement from Xiaolin Huang, Feifei Pei, and Changle Fu (2014) that William Wordsworth often called himself as “A Worshiper

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    In the words of Thomas Edison, solitude is when, one does their best thinking. The importance of solitude can further be divulged into by Franz Kafka’s words that writing is the ultimate source of utter solitude, it acts as a welcome reprieve. Another of William Wordsworth’s contemporaries, Lord Byron was of the opinion that letter writing was the ultimate way of merging good company with solitude. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s renowned essay “Self-Reliance” he surmises that it is quite easy to dwell

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    • What is the purpose of your partnership? The purpose of the partnership is to expand the preparedness efforts of the Smokey Bay region by aligning the whole community and optimizing resource management for disaster recovery. Additionally, the partnership will revamp regional policies, set communication network standards, and establish building code requirements to perpetuate resilience. • What are the objectives of your partnership? The mission is to minimize the threat of flood/tropical hazards

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    Towards the middle of the 1770s, William Wordsworth was born on April 7th in Cockermouth, England into a middle-class family as the second born out of five children (“William Wordsworth”). His mother and father worked upon very wealthy families to make a living, and provide their children with a respectable life and a pleasant home (“William Wordsworth”). For instance, “His father John Wordsworth, was a legal agent to wealthy landowners and his mother came into the marriage from a conventionally

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    disconnect with the natural world. This poem is classified as a sonnet due to being in 14 line iambic pentameter. This sonnet is a Petrarchan sonnet due to it’s common rhyme scheme of abbaabba William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumbria England. Wordsworth's mother died when he was at a young age, this tragic event inspired and shaped much of his later work. Whilst attending Hawkshead Grammar School, Wordsworth established a love for poetry. Unfortunately while attending

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    as a student. Born in the spring of 1770, Wordsworth grew up with four siblings in England along the Derwent River, exposing him early on to nature’s beauty. He drew inspiration for his autobiographical poem, The Prelude, from his schooling at Cockermouth, as well as from his education in Hawkshead, where he and his brother attended school. He then attended Cambridge, using his experiences there to note his changing ideas of his education in the third book of The Prelude. This movement

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    William Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April in 1770 Cockermouth England. William was the second of five children his parents their parents were John and Ann words worth. is closest of the siblings was Dorothy mainly because they were back together which marks the beginning of a lifelong friendship. William was usually very intense. William had a very unfortunate bumpy childhood. His mother died when he was 8 while his father worked as a lawyer for the Earl of a loser he was known for being the

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    William Wordsworth, a 19th-century English romantic poet, shook the world with his expressive and sentimental sonnets. Born in 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, Wordsworth grew up especially close to his sister, who was a poet and diarist. Wordsworth made his debut as a write in 1787, when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. In the same year, he attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he eventually received his bachelor’s degree in 1791. Wordsworth displayed a tremendous passion

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    William Wordsworth Born April 7, 1770 to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson in Cockermouth, Cumberland was the poet William Wordsworth. He was the second of five children. Richard, the oldest was a lawyer. Dorothy was a year younger than William and also a poet. John was a sea captain of the Earl of Abergavenny and was killed in a shipwreck. Christopher was the youngest who became the Master of Trinity College at Cambridge. In November in 1791, William visited France. He met and fell in love

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    An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Mary Shelley’s book is written in epistolary form because the novel opens with four letters written by Walton to his sister and letters between the Frankenstein family. 2) An allusion is a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. They

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