Describe the function of memory in Wordsworth's "Daffodils" and "We Are Seven."

From the outset, I think that one could argue that the
construction of both poems is the result of memory.  Wordsworth's own experiences play a
formative role in each poem.  The girl in "We Are Seven" is actually someone that he
encountered, while the scene with the daffodils was experienced with his sister on a
walk.  In this light, memory plays a vital role in the construction of consciousness in
each poem.  Memory also plays a role in how Wordsworth appropriates the lessons in each
setting.  Wordsworth's memory of the girl's demand that there is life in the dead and
the scene of the daffodils are both told in a reflective frame of reference, implying
that memory plays a vital role in appropriating "the life of things" from these
settings.  The fact that both poems are told in the past tense, recounting an
experience, helps to bring to light the importance of memory in the construction of our
individual consciousness.  This is an important idea in Romanticism, and one upon which
Wordsworth himself placed a great deal of primacy.