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(the narrator) that he oing.He had joined the puzzle bits together and understood the whole story,
(B. Wordsworth) had been wotking on t obbing
tor five years
eNpected
sam
to
complete the masterpiece in twenty wo ana
nd
all had developed the heart and eye of poet.
ter
he
pace, writing one yeats t he
worked
good line, a month. He atth
poem that would address planned to write a
magnific die boy's Going to Alberto Street A Year Later and His Finding No
deep, humanity.
spell bound the boy to the extent
The previous montts une ncent
"The past i ien of the Poet's House and Nature
The Boy's Having Great Expectation
that he craved for more. ast The boy never saw or heard of Wordsworth again. A year later, as he walked

The
from Wordsworth's Poem saw no sign of Wordsworth's old house. It had been
long Alberto Street, he
boy tried to
inquire about the molished and a large two - storied concrete building stood in its place. His
that he wrote but the
poet
chose not to
developments and any new about
however remained respond and maintained silence. lines irees had been cut down and bricks littered the foundation. It was just as though
and his optimistic and enthusiastic about The bow
B. B. Wordsworth had never existed. People's love for concrete had made them
poetry business, harboring a wordsworth's poetr
surely fetch him a handsome thought that, one day his devour
the
resplendent nature. The mango tree and the plum tree and the
amount and he would be the
poem would
world. B. Wordsworth showed no richest man in coconut tree had all been cut down
excitement or enthusiasm. the
understand where B.
Wordsworth came from and what he had
As the boy began to
seemed like a new
person
to him. He did lived
through, he
for the first time in his
life. He lived everything though he were
as
doing it
he knew that at every moment with joy and
any moment, it could be his last. pleasure because atait HyHTCRERI H GGN u
B. Wordsworth's Pitiable State, the
Death Boy's Seeing Wordsworth's
APproaching and B. Wordsworth's
His Story: Revealing the Truth of
One day, the
boy went to meet B.
Wordsworth in his little house. 1he
ike crying at the boy felt
pitiable condition of the poet.
It seemed the
pains ot lite and his
powerlessness to change his destiny had made him enervated and old. He said
that his poem was not doing well. The narrator saw Death writ
shriveled and shrunken face. B. large on his
Wordsworth was able to observe that the
had noticed the boy
approaching
death and was happy that he (the
boy) had
developed poet's eyes. In this last meeting, B. Wordsworth made the
a

promise not to visit him again. In this last meeting, he asked if the boy wantedboyto
hear a
funny story. 1The story, not-so-funny after all, was that B. Wordsworth
had lied about the
girl poet and the baby. He had also lied about writing the
greatest poem. And with that, he sent the boy on his way. He did not want him
to
carry sad memories about the poet and his unrealized dreams and quashed
aspirations.
B. Wordsworth's Death and The Boy's Feeling Utter Sorrow at His
Death :

The boy was left with a great memory of a great poet and great observer ot
nature and life who had
taught him to view life as something new,
unexplored
and worth
experimenting. Wordsworth asked the boy if that was not the funniest
thing he ever heard. His voice broke and the boy knew that it was not
lie. It
funny. It
was not a was the stark truth that he lived with and died of. He ran home