I Wondered as Lonely as a Cloud

The memories in the poem maintain a cohesiveness and continuity of experience through repeated motifs such as the violets and the ‘whistling’. Memories also give us a recovered sense of life, as shown through the final line of the poem ‘faint scent of violets drifts in air’. This example of sensory imagery also creates a rhythmic drifting sense linked closely to the “stone-curlews call from Kedron Brook”. It echoes images of the speaker’s mind drifting into reflection and aurally creates transience between the present and the past.

The poem begins with using “melodies” as an image. In the first phrase, “Like melodies draw it to me softly through the mind,” the word “melodies” seems to be symbolic of thoughts or memories. These melodies are like a tune that you cannot get out of your head, a memory that he is unable to forget.

In conclusion, the poem points the inevitable cycle of natural and emotional events and the power that love has to go beyond that cycle. This is why the speaker assures that the way he has loved is something that

This describes what the man on the bike is enduring and what he is seeing. By describing surrounding and what people look like, it allows the reader to create an image in their head of what is happening in the poem.

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

Unlike other forms of literature, poetry can be so complex that everyone who reads it may see something different. Two poets who are world renowned for their ability to transform reader’s perceptions with the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and self-discovery. This poem focuses more on the soul and how it relates to the body. “Song of myself” and “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” both explore the common theme of how the different perceptions of the soul and body can affect the way the speaker views themselves, others, and the world around them.

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.

Another example is “Today, the road all runners come” because of road and runner. Rhyme is similarity of sound between words or the endings of words when used at the end of a line of poetry. The rhyme scheme of “To an Athlete Dying Young” is ABAB. This means that the last word of every two lines rhymes. For example, “So set, before its echoes fade,/The fleet foot on the sill of shade,/And hold to the lintel up/The still-defended challenge cup.” This is an excellent demonstration of the ABAB rhyme scheme because “fade” and “shade” rhymes, as does “up” and “cup.”

The poem begins with the poet noticing the beauty around her, the fall colors as the sun sets “Their leaves and fruits seemed painted, but was true, / Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hue;” (5-6). The poet immediately relates the effects of nature’s beauty to her own spiritual beliefs. She wonders that if nature here on Earth is so magnificent, then Heaven must be more wonderful than ever imagined. She then views a stately oak tree and

“Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” This beautiful and lovely description of the daffodils portrayed in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” helps the reader to envision what Wordsworth saw while he was out walking. Such a description makes a reader’s imagination flow and encaptures a reader. Another story that catches a reader’s attention in a similar way to “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is the text “Calypso Borealis”. Authors William Wordsworth and John Muir both write beautiful descriptions of nature that pull readers in and allow them to see the wonders of nature through the authors’

The poem talks about a man- an anonymous “he”- a perfectionist whose poetry was understandable and who, himself, understood “human folly” and the human psyche like “the back of his hand”. He was

The vocabulary choice used in this poem is pretty common for the time it was written. There are a couple multi syllable words, such as “Jocund”, which is a word that is not heard in normal conversation amongst the current generation. The word choice connects, and illuminates the speaker about specific details involving the surroundings. The steady rhyming flow and benign words give the poem a mellow and soft tone. The author sounds genuinely excited about the place they are talking about. There are many examples of figurative language throughout the poem. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and “Continuous as the stars that shine” are examples of similes, because they use the word ‘as’. The author uses the words, “dance” and “dancing” a lot in the poem to talk about the daffodils and waves, these are examples of personification. Personification is when someone speaks of an object or thing in a way that gives them human-like traits. For example, a daffodil can’t actually dance. “They stretched in a never-ending line”, this is an example of a metaphor. The daffodils of course end at some point, the author simply said this to paint the picture for us that the daffodils

(The personification of "Sleeping flowers" could be seeds that haven't yet become what they could be, much like people who are not yet alive to the beauty of nature and the beauty in them.) In line eight he ties all these thoughts together by stating that for all these reasons and "for everything, we are out of tune;" This line might be a clever way to portray the line itself being out of tune in the way we are out of tune with nature. The lines it is supposed to rhyme with all end in oon, as in moon, soon, and boon. So in making this line slightly out of synch in this way makes it out of tune with the rest of the poem. This might be an interesting way of using the structure of the poem to help convey his point.

the speaker of this poem is an adult who is reflecting on a previous experience of having witness the field of daffodils planted in mass beside a lack there were so many daffodils that it was the share number that caught his attention and made this such memorable experience along with the movement of the daffodils in the breeze and we have here from lines 9 through 12 emphasis the shared number of daffodils and WW uses hyporbily when he says ten thousands so i as a glance, again just emphasis how many daffodils there were and this blanket that covered the space. the situation in the poem involves the speaker who is obviously looking back on this moment in his life in nature and this connection he has with nature, and if we go to the final stanza on the poem we shift in time and we go to present time where the speaker he says on his couch he laize and he is in vacant his mind is clear obnsive mode he is reflective his thoughtful and in these moments that this version of the daffodils flash upon an inward i which he calls the blest, the joy of solitude, the joy of being alone and i interpret that inward i to be his mind that this beautiful image of the blanket daffodils

The French Revolution of the 18th Century presented a theme of hope and change for new political and artistic thought processes as it fought for equal rights over oppression. This Revolution marked the beginning of the Romantic Period, effectively inspiring poets to pursue raw emotion rather than logic or reason as in the previous age. In turn, the revolution gave great influence to several key social poets of the time such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. Accordingly, these poets illustrated the ideals of these revolutionary beliefs to reach the public consciousness of their society through poetic portrayals of the individual achieving greatness or personal understanding through the emotion of nature. As a result, this explication will demonstrate an exploration of romantic techniques to create an interpretation of my poem while examining the elements of Romantic poetry in general based on the works of Coleridge and Wordsworth.