Grasmere+Journal,+15+April+1802

Grasmere Journal, 15 April 1802
This excerpt taken from //Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798, The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803,// ed. Mary Moorman (New York: Oxford UP, 1971), 109-110.

> //Thursday 15th.// It was a threatening misty morning—but mild. We set off after dinner from Eusemere. Mrs Clarkson went a short way with us but turned back. The wind was furious and we thought we must have returned. We first rested in the large Boat-house, then under a furze Bush opposite Mr Clarkson's. Saw the plough going in the field. The wind seized our breath the Lake was rough. There was a Boat by itself floating in the middle of the Bay below Water Millock. We rested again in the Water Millock Lane. The hawthorns are black and green, the birches here and there greenish but there is yet more of purple to be seen on the Twigs. We got over into a field to avoid some cows—people working, a few primroses by the roadside, woodsorrel flower, the anemone, scentless violets, strawberries, and that starry yellow flower which Mrs C. calls pile wort. 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 turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these 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. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. We rested again and again. The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea. Rain came on—we were wet when we reached Luffs but we called in. Luckily all was chearless and gloomy so we faced the storm—we //must// have been wet if we had waited—put on dry clothes at Dobson's. I was very kindly treated by a young woman, the Landlady looked sour but it is her way. She gave us a goodish supper. Excellent ham and potatoes. We paid 7/ when we came away. William was sitting by a bright fire when I came downstairs. He soon made his way to the Library piled up in a corner of the window. He brought out a volume of Enfield's Speaker, another miscellany, and an odd volume of Congreve's plays. We had a glass of warm rum and water. We enjoyed ourselves and wished for Mary. It rained and blew when we went to bed. > question:
 * 1) what was the weather like that day?
 * 2) where were they exactly?
 * 3) can you write some information about that region for a hypothetical tourist?
 * 4) what did they see?
 * 5) what was their idea about the origin of those flowers?
 * 6) how does the writer describe the scene they suddenly assisted to?
 * 7) what was the effect of the wind upon the flwers?
 * 8) what did they do at end of the walk?
 * 9) what was the result of this walk?
 * 10) can you sum up this diary page in a few lines?

ansewers:
 * 1) the weather was mild, but it was a threatering and misty morning.
 * 2) they were in the lake district, in the woods beyond the Growbarrow park.
 * 3) the west is dominate by lake district, it as the cumbrian mountains and it is very famous for its natural beauties. there is a lot of lakes.
 * 4) they sow a few daffodils close to the water side
 * 5) they fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore and that the little colony had sow sprung up
 * 6) they went along, there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees. they sow that there was a long belt of theme along the shore
 * 7) the daffodils rested in the head stone as on a pillow for weariness they moved it.
 * 8) the walk ends with the rain.
 * 9) the result of this walk is the poem of williams
 * 10) a group of boys were in the woods beyond gowbarrow park, in the lake district.they sow the daffodils when it to started to rain and they reached Luffs but they called in. the next day they returned home and William started to write