I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is one of the

most famous and best-loved poems written in the English language. It was composed
by Romantic poet William Wordsworth around 1804, though he subsequently revised
it—the final and most familiar version of the poem was published in 1815. The poem is
based on one of Wordsworth's own walks in the countryside of England's Lake District.
During this walk, he and his sister encountered a long strip of daffodils. In the poem,
these daffodils have a long-lasting effect on the speaker, firstly in the immediate
impression they make and secondly in the way that the image of them comes back to
the speaker's mind later on. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a quintessentially
Romantic poem, bringing together key ideas about imagination, humanity and the
natural world.

“Continuous as the stars that shine


And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay”

While he was walking along the country side, he saw


a field of daffodils. He was so mesmerized that he compared the scenery to the
stars in the sky. It can be seen that the poet has fell in love with beauty of nature.

“I gazed—and gazed—but little thought


What wealth the show to me had brought”
The poet looks at the daffodils with an amazed look.
The more he keeps staring at the daffodils he is feeling the positivity that the nature is
giving out with just its beauty. It is important that a person to feel positivity in their life.
So from the above example it can be seen that the poet is explaining that the beauty if
the nature doesn’t only give people happiness but a peace in mind and positivity.
“They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
When the poet returns back home and sits on his
couch, he goes to the memory of the daffodils. The memory brought happiness to the
ports mind.
From the above examples it can be seen how the
port admires the nature.

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