"I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er dale and hill. When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of.......er........"
BACKGROUND
Country residents in the UK have been told that they must accept the building of "many thousands" of wind turbines as part of a new green energy strategy. Full story >>
COMMENTARY
This cartoon by Mac from The Daily Mail shows a man on a hillside surrounded by wind turbines. He's reciting a famous poem by William Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". In the poem, the poet sees "a host of golden daffodils". However, the flowers have now disappeared and in their place is a forest of wind turbines. Actually, the wind turbines look a bit like those toy windmills that children love, which in turn look like daffodils.
