It is important to notice the loneliness of the wanderer in the opening line. They put him in mind of the heavens at night-the stars in the milky way-as well as the waves of the lake by which they dance, and so they become a kind of center to the whole world of human experience: stars, sky (where the clouds and the breeze are active), earth, woods, and waters. The speaker has been astonished by the sudden appearance, or at least his sudden awareness, of a host of daffodils. The poem begins in the past tense and seems to be the present report of an incident just experienced. (Her hidden or unexpected presence should be compared with her surprising appearance at the end of “Tintern Abbey.”) The most obvious change, of course, is the speaker’s loneliness, where in reality Wordsworth was with his sister. In her journal for April 15, 1804, she wrote: “I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing.” Wordsworth waited two years to write the poem about that day, and in “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” he reimagines it according to his poetic needs.
We know from his sister Dorothy’s journals that they were together when they saw the daffodils the poem celebrates. The extent to which Wordsworth altered versions of events that were the origins of his poems should be noted here. Wordsworth was particularly good at interweaving several different temporal perspectives into a single poem, and since time and the changes it produces formed Wordsworth’s central poetic preoccupation, his interweaving in this poem is of central importance. Like many of Wordsworth’s shorter poems, it is far more complex than it seems at first. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is one of William Wordsworth’s most famous poems. And thus it is the complete rejection of the newly developed industrial world and an escape to nature and the rustic world.Analysis of Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloudīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Febru Throughout the poem, the poet emphasises nature and natural things. There is no use of materialistic examples. The poet thus wants us to feel the beauty of nature. In stanza 3, he compares them with the waves of the lake. In stanza 2, he compares Daffodils with a galaxy of stars. In the poem, the poet uses various things to describe the beauty, joy and elegance of the daffodils. Thus the memory of the daffodils becomes his companion in his solitude and taking away all his sorrows and boredom make his spirit dance with them. His heart is then filled with pleasure and dances with the daffodils. Their memory then becomes the source of joy in his solitude. In the fourth and final stanza, the poet says that while sitting on his couch (a kind of bench) and in vacant (when he is idle) or in pensive mood (when he is sorrowful), the memories of those daffodils flash upon his inward eye i.e. W ealth here means ‘ happiness‘.įor the Romantics, nature and its beauty was the ultimate wealth and because it was in abundance, he could take away just a little bit of it though he kept watching them. However, he could not fully appreciate the scenery before him. kept looking on the daffodils and their dance. Hence in the poem, the poet concludes that seeing the daffodils dancing along the lake is the dream of every poet including him and being there is like dream coming true.Īnd thus the poet gazed-and gazed i.e. The poet says that the daffodils stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay. The bay here refers to the lake. The second stanza begins with the comparison between daffodils along the lake and stars in the Milkyway. Stanza 2 Continuous as the stars that shine Hence this is the example of juxtaposition in I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud. In a way, the poet imagines as if the daffodils possess the qualities of both thus of the world and the meta world.
Again the poet personifies the daffodils by showing them as flapping (wings of birds or in imaginations that of angels) and dancing (like humans) in the moving breeze. The daffodils seem to be fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
along with the shores of the lake and below the trees because they are small. According to the poet, he sees a large number of daffodils beside the lake, beneath the treesi.e. The poet calls daffodils golden rather than yellow in order to express their majesty and beauty.
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