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What (Poem) Am I Thinking Of

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So vague. Sorry. Sometime between 1996-2000, I read a poem that I think was Wordsworth (although I may be way off), the upshot of which was that the narrator was in some sort of splendid, gorgeous, natural, sublime setting and wanted to be reveling in it but was instead thinking about how they would remember the moment -- rather than actually "experiencing" the moment, the writer was instead meta-experiencing the experience of the moment and how they might describe it later. It was part of a class assignment in an Honors English class in California public schools, but as far as I can tell the teachers had quite a lot of leeway, curriculum-wise. Any ideas? Potential issues: I guess I may have actually written something like this in response to some other poem (although I really don't think so); there's every possibility my understanding of the poem is actually high school-level inference of Themes and Symbolism and Whatnot rather than, like, explicit in the poem itself.

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