"William Wordsworth was considered one of the greatest and most influential English romantic poets of his time"(Young 369). ... "Critics of Wordsworth's poetry have made his treatment of nature, his use of language, and his poetics the central focus of their studies. ... In the first stanza he uses "clouds" to symbolize wandering, loneliness and "not moving of his free will, but rather by outside forces"(Exploring Poetry). ...

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He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... The "tulips" of the first volume are free-verse lyric poems that present a nostalgic glance at his childhood. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...

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