Author Notes
Today is April 7, the 239th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birthday. On April 15, 1802, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy were visiting their good friend Thomas Clarkson, a famous British abolitionist, who lived by Lake Ullswater in the Lake District. They came upon a field of thousands of daffodils growing by the lake, and the rest is history. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," often known as "Daffodils," is one of the most famous poems ever written and one of the most delightful.
Daffadowndilly is another name for daffodil and has such a fanciful sound to it that in Cockney rhyming speech Daffadown Dilly means silly.
Happy National Poetry Month!!!
|
