3.For William Wordsworth, who famously "wandered lonely as a cloud", the natural world offered a reprieve from negative feelings of isolation-a host of daffodils could provide "jocund company".
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4.He turned instinctively, as if he had painful experience of their nature, from tempests and rocks to the bright May day and the jocund landscape, from the harsh and mysterious to the gay and definite.