I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud Summary

In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth writes of a lonely day while out for a walk; until he stumbles across a bed of beautiful golden daffodils dancing in the breeze.

Literally, the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her, like violets and a blackbird, trigger a memory from her childhood. The poem then flashbacks to a childhood memory of the persona as a young girl, which is shown through the indentation of the stanzas, where the girl wakes up in the afternoon thinking it is morning and becomes upset when she

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work.

The visual’s background is formed by a dark and starry night sky; stretching across the image and transitioning into a sunny day sky. This is a representation of the passage of time, life, death, and the power of memories. The nighttime depicts ageing and adulthood, whereas the daytime represents youth and life. In the poem, the narrator describes the sky, ‘Ambiguous night, ambiguous sky,’ which is symbolic for the transience between adulthood and childhood. An ambiguous sky is a sky which is unclear or undecided. The faded transition from the night sky to the day sky reflects this notion and the uncertainty of memories; displaying how the poem

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

He sees the universe as a harmonious whole, in which every subject reflects and echoes the other. The daffodils became the speaker’s companions in the third stanza, and they were describing as “the jocund company” by the poet. He enjoys the company of the dancing daffodils, which brings him happiness and joy.

Because of the Marquis St. Evremonde’s inhumanity to the peasants, he is not redeemed and ends up dead. The Marquis was a very inhumane man along with

In A Tale of Two Cities, the Marquis has had many chances to prove himself virtuous. Contrary to the Bible’s teachings, the Marquis has shown himself to be merciless, lack humility, and to favor himself over his people.

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The symbolism of the harsh nature of society and desire found in the novel establishes the creation of relevancy in the novel. The character of Monseigneur the Marquis is the timeless symbol of a cruel society. Marquis is an authority figure in France in 1780, and is responsible for the

Wordsworth continues to relay his experience in nature as he expounds upon the affiliation between the daffodils and another natural element. Applying simile, the poet connects the flowers to the stars, "Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way" (7-8). A mental picture of infinite flowers is created, while "shine" and "twinkle" produce an image of light. Wordsworth uses the light imagery to link the two aspects of nature; the luminous stars of the night and "golden" daffodils of the day. The link shows the reader the connection the poet sees in different facets of nature. The second stanza continues the description of the dance "Ten thousand saw I at a glance, / Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" (12). The image created is of large numbers of flowers moving in unison and expresses the harmony the poet finds in nature. The usage of "sprightly" makes another reference to light, but in the sense of movement and weight as "cloud" and "floats" were utilized in the first stanza. Diction in the second stanza provides the reader with a multi-dimensional prospective of Wordsworth's imagery by giving the images action, feeling and weight.

The poem was written in the year 1802. It was first published in Poems in Two Volumes, in 1807. The very starting line of the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” informs the poet’s profound sentiments of being left alone. It was actually the death of his brother John that led him to “loneliness”. We should remind the readers that this poem was not a result of imagination. Dorothy, Wordsworth’s sister provides us an explanation of the occasion which inspired Wordsworth to produce this masterpiece:-

The literary criticism is the one that studies and evaluates literature from a wide diversity of perspectives; based on this, the reader can interpret and analyze the literary work from different viewpoints and perceptions. The lyric poem titled: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, also known as “Daffodils” was published in 1807, this beautiful poem was written by one of the fathers of the Romanticism, the remarkable romantic poet William Wordsworth, according to shmoop.com, (2008): “Wordsworth is a British poet who is associated with the Romantic movement of the early 19th century”. He was born in the North West of England, in Cumberland on April 7th, 1770 and he died in Cumberland on April 23rd, 1850.