Friday, January 18, 2013

Title Page and Inspiration

So, I find it difficult to come up with titles. A friend told me I should just name the blog 30 Before 30, which in all honesty makes sense, but was boring. She also told me, if I have to explain the title, it's not a good title--but I honestly don't think I'd have to explain the title if people knew the source of inspiration for it. So, below I am posting one of my favorite poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth:


I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

(I have a book with this poem in it, but copied the source from) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790 

To me this poem is one of the most beautiful I've read and reread because it is a simple reminder of the beauty we take for granted in our lives and the memories we make that we can look back upon...Tell me what you think!

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