【正文】 39。 s beauty uplifts the human spirit. Lines 15, 23, and 24 specifically refer to this theme. People sometimes fail to appreciate nature39。 Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Summary, Stanza 1 While wandering like a cloud, the poet happens to see daffodils fluttering in a breeze on the shore of a lake, beneath the trees. Daffodils are plants in the lily family with yellow flowers and a crown shaped like a trumpet. 2 Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in neverending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. Summary, Stanza 2 The daffodils stretch all along the shore. Because there are so many of them, they remind the poet of the Milky Way, the galaxy that scientists say contains about one trillion stars, including the sun. The speaker humanizes the daffodils when he says they are engaging in a dance. 3 The waves beside them danced。s Lake District. The Lake District extends twentyfive miles east to west and thirty miles north to south. Among its attractions are England‘s highest mountain, Scafell Pike (3,210 feet), and Esthwaite Lake and other picturesque scenes radiating outward, like the points of a star, from the town of Grasmere. Wordsworth described his experience that day as follows: ―When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side, we fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore and that the little colony had so sprung up — But as we went along, there were more and yet more, and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country road . Some rested their heads on mossy stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing. ... ‖ Stanza Summary 1 I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o39。 多少次安慰過(guò)我的寂寞； And then my heart with pleasure fills, 我的心又隨水仙跳起舞來(lái)， And dances with the daffodils. 我的心又重新充滿了歡樂(lè)。 but they 粼粼湖波也在近旁歡跳， Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: 卻不如這水仙舞得輕俏； A poet could not but be gay, 詩(shī)人遇見(jiàn)這快樂(lè)的旅伴， in such a jocund pany: 又怎能不感到歡欣雀躍； I gazed and gazed but little thought 我久久凝視 卻未領(lǐng)悟 what wealth the show to me had brought: 這景象所給鐵精神至寶。 Continuous as the stars that shine 它們密集如銀河的星星， and twinkle on the Milky Way, 像群星在閃爍一片晶瑩； They stretched in neverending line 它們沿著海灣向前伸展， along the margin of a bay: 通往遠(yuǎn)方仿佛無(wú)窮無(wú)盡； Ten thousand saw I at a glance, 一眼看去就有千朵萬(wàn)朵， tossing their heads in sprightly dance. 萬(wàn)花搖首舞得多么高興。 是金色的水仙遍地開(kāi)放。s life. Scott marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it. ** The Lake Poets are a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nieenth century. They are considered part of the Romantic Movement. The three main figures of what has bee known as the Lakes School are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey. III. Passive / Escapist Romanticists 1. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads《 抒情歌謠集 》 . In his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, which is called the manifesto of English Romanticism, Wordsworth calls his poems experimental.‖ In the ―Preface‖, he described poetry as ―the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings … recollected in tranquility.‖ Wordsworth‘s masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude 《 序 》 , a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem ―to Coleridge‖. Wordsworth was Britain‘s Poet Laureate (桂冠詩(shī)人 ) from 1843 until his death in 1850. Wordsworth‘s famous poems: ―We Are Seven‖ (我們七個(gè) ) ―Lines Written in Early Spring‖ (早春 ) ―Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abby‖ (丁登寺 ) ―The Excursion‖ (遠(yuǎn)足 ) ―Lucy Poems‖(露西組詩(shī) ) ―The Solitary Reaper‖(孤獨(dú)的割麥人 ) ―I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud‖ (我好似一朵孤獨(dú)的流云 ) (also known as ―Daffodils‖) (或“ 詠水仙 ” ) 顧子欣譯 I wandered lonely as a cloud 我好似一朵孤獨(dú)的流云， That floats on high o39。English Literature Chapter Eight Romanticism in England (1798 1832) 1798: the publication of Lyrical Ballads 1832: the death of Walter Scott a Romantic novelist I. Background This is the age of revolutions: The American revolution (17751783) where The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, stated that America was an independent nation. The French revolution (17891815) which introduced the democratic ideals: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for everybody. The industrial revolution (the 18th19th Cent.) which transformed Britain from agricultural to industrial country involving the use of new sources of power (coal and steam) and also important technological inventions like the steam engine. ? Social conflicts and changes: The main social changes were among the working classes. The principal social events were: An enormous increase in production and wealth Periods of overproduction and periods of depression Workers unions were formed