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    A Lake District Rendezvous: A Dramatic Dialogue in One Act Characters WORDSWORTH: This Lyrical Ballads enthusiast passes his time splashing around in the Lake District, or finds pleasure sitting on a comfortable hillside, all the way from Great Britain, Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. MOLIERE: The master of comedy, and the proud harlequin of Louis XIV court, he was born to make people laugh, all the way from Paris France, Enlightenment playwright Moliere. TOLSTOY: This high class aristocrat

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    in farming in the Lake District. The valley floor, where the land is flat, is used for grazing cattle. As the

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    Charles Brookes, a young, sturdy, twenty-four year old Englishman, and a farmer by trade, owned a small cottage in the mountainous regions near Lake District, Cumbria. He lived with his parents, who were both of old age and very feeble, and a younger brother, William, who was half his age. Charles and his folks seemed to be living a content life but Charles’ countenance expressed poignancy, and he did not make an effort to reveal his true emotions to his parents. It had only been a few months since

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    The inspiration for both William Wordsworth’s poem “I wandered as lonely as a cloud” and Dorothy’s journal entry comes from a walk they took in the Lake District along the Gowbarrow park. The daffodils alongside the riverbank struck both enough to write about them. Though daffodils serve as the focal point for both writings, Dorothy records the sight in front of her whereas William offers a more mystical and spiritual perception of the experience. The first hint that William’s poem is more mystical

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    said by George Santayana is apt for William Wordsworth as most of his poems explore the wonders of nature. He is often called as a nature writer and his love for nature is beyond measure. As a child, he spent most of his time in nature’s lap in Lake District, and thus was greatly affected by everything that happened in nature. Nature enjoys a distinct and important status in his poetry and his poems are greatly influenced by what he saw and felt about nature. Just as nature has such a great impact

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    with a traditional style and has a flowing rhyme scheme which makes the poem flow well with a nice rhythm when red aloud. The writer describes in first person narrative the beauty and joy of nature as he is wandering beside a shoreline in the lake district. “Miracle on St David's Day” by Gillian Clarke is inspired by “The Daffodils” and was written around 1980, it contrasts the “The Daffodils” in style because it is deliberately made to flow unsteadily and confuse the reader which reflects the

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    The Way Wordsworth and Heaney Present Nature and Rural Life in Their Poetry Born 1770, in Cockermouth, William Wordsworth spent his early life and many of his formative years attending a boys' school in Hawkshead, a village in the Lake District. As can be seen in his poetry, the years he spent living in these rural surroundings provided many of the valuable experiences Wordsworth had as he grew up. At the age of 17, Wordsworth moved south to study at Saint John's College

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    Lake District which is located in Cumbria is one the most famous place in England involving Beatrix Potter who is best known for her beautifully illustrated children's books of Peter Rabbit of all time. Being potrayed in the movie “Miss Potter” in 2006, Lake District indeed stroke viewers for the first time for its superb and wild beauty. After the death of the beloved man, she made a decision to buy Hill top farm and spent the rest of her life here writing and developing a love of landscape and

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    Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of Tourism in the Lake District In the Lake District tourism is very important and has a significant impact on the local economy. But there is concern about the Lake District and how much more development it can take from the tourism industry. The Lake District remained relatively untouched until the 19th century when railways allowed the large urban population of Northwest England to visit the National Park. Tourism and

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    birth to the child, which is the new life. I will now discuss William Wordsworth’s view of London and his background. William Wordsworth did not grow up in London, so he did not know the hardships of growing up there. Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District and moved to London when he was an adult, he was also a lot richer than Blake so he moved to the higher class part of London. He did not see London though the same eyes as Blake. William Wordsworth talks about London in a very different way than

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