Summary Of Dorothy's Grasmere Journals

In the Grasmere Journals, Dorothy had written that “the two and a half years she lived with William in Grasmere were the happiest in my whole life” (Wordsworth and Woof, 2002). They were impossible to separate and William gave her life meaning. William was Dorothy’s Stimulus. William gained his ideas from Dorothy innovative nature in the Grasmere Journals. They both understood each other and that will now be discussed in depth. William Wordsworth’s poetry focused on themes and events which were recorded in Dorothy’s journal “The Grasmere Journal”. Dorothy wrote in her journal about days that she spent outside in England with William, and two years later, that same event would be transformed into a poem by William. Both poets have written about the same event, however, it must be noted that both writers wrote their texts in completely different ways. Dorothy wrote in a diary format while William wrote in a romantic lyric format. It is as if Dorothy has written a book full of notes for William, to allow him to write beautiful poetry. Dorothy wrote many a times of her physical closeness to her brother and this can show the manner in which William sought to gain the subject of his poetry in Dorothy’s journal. In this paper, Dorothy’s “Grasmere Journals” will be compared with William’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and this can show the close relationship between the siblings in great detail. In the Grasmere Journals, Dorothy wrote about the time that William and herself