![]() ![]() The speaker notices that the flowers move more than the rippling waves of the lake.įascinated by this sight he cannot turn his eyes away but doesn’t yet appreciate the impact this experience will have on him later on. The poet describes a speaker walking alone along the shore of a lake lined with trees.ĭuring this walk the speaker discovers a large number of yellow daffodils moving in a breeze.īecause there are so many of them they remind the speaker of the Milky Way, a galaxy containing a huge number of stars. The poem is replete with visual imagery such as “lonely as a cloud”, “golden daffodils”, “ a crowd”, “never-ending line”, ”milky way” and “jocund company.” I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Summary “They flash upon that inward eye.” (Where inward eye suggests the mental vision or memory of daffodils) Imagery “ and dances like daffodills” (repetition of ‘d’ sound) Metaphor ![]() “Beside the lake, beneath the trees”, (repetition of ‘b’ sound) ”They stretched in never-ending line” Alliteration ‘crowd’, ‘host’, dancing, tossing their heads, glee, jocund company, Hyperbole or Exaggeration “Continuous like star that shines” Personification It appears to him that the flowers are very happy and enjoying the pleasant atmosphere. The sight of a very large number of golden daffodils looks very charming to the poet. Wordsworth strongly believes that Nature is full of joy and has a life of her own. ![]() It may be regarded as a representative poem of Wordsworth as a poet of Nature. A description of the scene has been given by the poet and also by his sister Dorothy in her Journals, dated April 15, 1802. The sight of the flowers was very charming and appealing to the poet. The occasion of the poem was the poet’s visit with his sister Dorothy to Gowbarrow Park, Ullswater in Lake District in a stormy day, where he saw a broad belt of full-grown daffodils growing on the wooded shore of an island lake. It is one of the finest and most popular poems of Wordsworth. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” or “The Daffodils” was composed by Wordsworth at Town-end, Grasmere, in 1804, and published in 1807 in the series Moods of My Own Mind.
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