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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historic figures: William Wordsworth (1770–1850) )〕 The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account),〔Moorman (1965) p.27〕 it was first published in 1807 in ''Poems in Two Volumes'', and a revised version was published in 1815. In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 ''Bookworm'' programme to determine the nation's favourite poems, ''I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'' came fifth. Often anthologised, the poem is commonly seen as a classic of English romantic poetry, although ''Poems in Two Volumes'', in which it first appeared, was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries. == Background == The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Visit Cumbria )〕 He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk:〔 At the time he wrote the poem, Wordsworth was living with his wife, Mary Hutchinson, and sister Dorothy at Town End,〔Their cottage is known as ''Dove Cottage'' today, but in fact it had no name in their time and their address was simply "Town End, Grasmere", Town End being the name of the hamlet in Grasmere they lived in ''c.f.'' Moorman (1957) pp. 459–60.〕 in Grasmere in England's Lake District.〔 Mary contributed what Wordsworth later said were the two best lines in the poem, recalling the "tranquil restoration" of ''Tintern Abbey'',〔In the ''Preface'' to the ''Lyrical Ballads'' Wordsworth famously defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity". Mary Moorman (1957 pp. 148–9) remarks that in this manner spring poems such as "Tintern Abbey" and "I wandered lonely as a Cloud", as well as all the best of ''The Prelude''.〕 :They flash upon that inward eye :Which is the bliss of solitude The entire household thus contributed to the poem.〔Moorman (1965) p. 27〕 Nevertheless, Wordsworth's biographer Mary Moorman, notes that Dorothy was excluded from the poem, even though she had seen the daffodils together with Wordsworth. The poem itself was placed in a section of ''Poems in Two Volumes'' entitled ''Moods of my Mind'' in which he grouped together his most deeply felt lyrics. Others included ''To a Butterfly'', a childhood recollection of chasing butterflies with Dorothy, and ''The Sparrow's Nest'', in which he says of Dorothy "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears".〔Moorman (1965) p. 96-7〕 The earlier ''Lyrical Ballads'', a collection of poems by both himself and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had been first published in 1798 and had started the romantic movement in England. It had brought Wordsworth and the other Lake poets into the poetic limelight. Wordsworth had published nothing new since the 1800 edition of ''Lyrical Ballads'', and a new publication was eagerly awaited. Wordsworth had, however, gained some financial security by the 1805 publication of the fourth edition of ''Lyrical Ballads''; it was the first from which he enjoyed the profits of copyright ownership. He decided to turn away from the long poem he was working on (''The Recluse'') and devote more attention to publishing ''Poems in Two Volumes'', in which "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" first appeared. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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