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Originally Posted by queenbu I also think that all three are ok. I only wonder why he refers to a lonely walk when Wordsworth's famous poem about daffodils was composed in 1804, two years after he saw the flowers walking by Ullswater on a stormy day with (his sister) Dorothy. |
I think this is the key -
For oft [even years afterwards]... they flash upon that inward eye ; the experience of seeing the daffodils is still with him. I don't like any of the three.