I wandered Lonely as a cloud
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That float on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A Host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the tress
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the starts 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.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company;
I gazed-and gazed -but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That float on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A Host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the tress
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the starts 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.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company;
I gazed-and gazed -but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
<TPCASTT ANALYSIS>
In “I wandered Lonely as a cloud”; William Wordsworth beautifully crafts a poem of a human-beings building up a relationship with nature. This poem is a strong and vivid example of William Wordsworth’s mastery of the imagery (especially visual). Such a soft and delicate description that Wordsworth used, made me to predict that the persona will be a woman.
The power of the poem lies in the speaker. The persona reflects her memories about her old days, when she had time to go out to the golden daffodils field and lay down as she enjoyed the breeze and sunshine. At the last stanza she starts explaining about her situation and how solitude she felt. (Reference to: “the bliss of solitude”) This line is a well applied paradox because the term “bliss” contains a meaning of joy and ecstasy while “solitude” signifies her being lonely and alone. I think the reason why Wordsworth created this sentence was because she knew the fact that people normally get indulged in their own memories when they are alone in a quite place. The persona is left alone on her couch and she falls into a pensive mood. She is saying that the solitude is bliss because she could remember how daffodils, lake, and trees looked like and how waves had danced beside her. The writer also used another poetic device “rhyme scheme.” I colored all the rhyme schemes with the same color for each pair. For instance “cloud” and “crowd,” “Shine” and “line,” and “trees” and “breeze” will be in the same color for each pair as I said. In the poem itself, imagery (especially visual) is blatantly revealed in “A Host, of golden Daffodils,” “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze,” “And twinkle on the Milky Way” and so on. Wordsworth has described each line to express what the persona has seen when she was having a good relationship with the nature. The audience is able to bring up some great vivid images by just reading her descriptions. As an audience, I found out that the persona was reflecting her memories until the last stanza brings her back to the present and it led me to think that as a big shift in this poem. I found out this poem very interesting.
In “I wandered Lonely as a cloud”; William Wordsworth beautifully crafts a poem of a human-beings building up a relationship with nature. This poem is a strong and vivid example of William Wordsworth’s mastery of the imagery (especially visual). Such a soft and delicate description that Wordsworth used, made me to predict that the persona will be a woman.
The power of the poem lies in the speaker. The persona reflects her memories about her old days, when she had time to go out to the golden daffodils field and lay down as she enjoyed the breeze and sunshine. At the last stanza she starts explaining about her situation and how solitude she felt. (Reference to: “the bliss of solitude”) This line is a well applied paradox because the term “bliss” contains a meaning of joy and ecstasy while “solitude” signifies her being lonely and alone. I think the reason why Wordsworth created this sentence was because she knew the fact that people normally get indulged in their own memories when they are alone in a quite place. The persona is left alone on her couch and she falls into a pensive mood. She is saying that the solitude is bliss because she could remember how daffodils, lake, and trees looked like and how waves had danced beside her. The writer also used another poetic device “rhyme scheme.” I colored all the rhyme schemes with the same color for each pair. For instance “cloud” and “crowd,” “Shine” and “line,” and “trees” and “breeze” will be in the same color for each pair as I said. In the poem itself, imagery (especially visual) is blatantly revealed in “A Host, of golden Daffodils,” “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze,” “And twinkle on the Milky Way” and so on. Wordsworth has described each line to express what the persona has seen when she was having a good relationship with the nature. The audience is able to bring up some great vivid images by just reading her descriptions. As an audience, I found out that the persona was reflecting her memories until the last stanza brings her back to the present and it led me to think that as a big shift in this poem. I found out this poem very interesting.
