62. Massen-Simultanlesung

A poem without a title that began „I wandered lonely as a cloud“ irritated England’s literati when it was penned by William Wordsworth. Even the poet’s friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge thought it contained elements of „mental bombast“.

But the accessibility of the poem was given a fitting tribute yesterday when, 200 years after it was written, a quarter of a million British schoolchildren recited it simultaneously. …

Ilana Ledermann, aged seven, said: „It makes me really excited when I read the poem because it has lovely old-fashioned words.“

Max Bailey, aged seven, said: „I like ‚Daffodils‘. It rhymes very nicely and flows along well. It was good fun reading it together.“

/ Independent 20.3.04

Hier das Gedicht. Hier ein Artikel von poet laureate Andrew Motion im Guardian vom 6.3.04