I wandered lonely as a cloud

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pasteI wandered lonely as a cloud

The speaker, Wordsworth, was mainly talking about the image of daffodils and how this memory worked in his heart. The whole poem is the Wordsworth speaking, from a view of a poet.
He first talked about his experience of seeing daffodils waving in the world of nature in the first two stanzas. And then, he backed to "now" how he was influenced by the imaginary.
It*s interesting that why he felt lonely when he described the beautiful scene in gay? In his description, the daffodils joined the nature in the first two stanza, such as vales, hales, lake, trees, breeze, etc. Even the daffodils gathered together, "I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils." In words like "sprighly, dancing, glee, gay, joncund" , the imaginary was very happy.
There are strong conflicts between the speaker and the daffodils(refers to nature). One is lonely, while the other is joyful. In the first two stanzas, the speaker blocked himself outside the nature, though he saw how beautiful the scenery was. He personified the daffodils who had emotions in actions, but he said he was lonely as a cloud, as looking high from the sky, so far away from the happy crowd. He was not participant. Cloud though is a part of nature, and it may have company. But in this poem, the main part is daffodils and things on the ground described, while the use of "cloud" contrasts to the image of flowers. So the "cloud" can mean loneliness.
In the third stanza, he said he gazed and gazed and felt gay. He also asked a question: "What wealth the show to me had brought?" This is a very general question which people would ask. As the speaker, most people just "see" how beautiful the scenery is, but unlike the speaker, they seldom build vivid imaginary which gives lives to the nature. After they saw it, they forgot about it. The picture of that very moment disappeared later when their minds are full of "important things".
The characteristics of a poet shows in the third stanza through the fourth. He said "They flash upon the inward eye which is the bliss of solitude." The "inward eye" shows his own mental condition of isolation. No wonder he mentioned above that he is "lonely" . Whenever he was isolated, the daffodils came to his mind with a joyful image, dancing and waving which fills Wordsworth*s heart with pleasures. And he finally danced with those flowers happily, after his first experience of lonely wandering and just watching them. But actually, it*s not the flowers dancing with him, but his own imagination of one experience of nature.
This is how a poet participates with nature. He uses the meter, iambic, which gives the feeling of waving when reading.

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daffodile and the poet -- Kate Liu 14:38:35 12/10/97

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>> pasteI wandered lonely as a cloud

>>      The speaker, Wordsworth, was mainly talking about the image of daffodils and how this memory worked in his heart. The whole poem is the Wordsworth speaking, from a view of a poet.

>>      He first talked about his experience of seeing daffodils waving in the world of nature in the first two stanzas. And then, he backed to "now" how he was influenced by the imaginary.

>>      It*s interesting that why he felt lonely when he described the beautiful scene in gay? In his description, the daffodils joined the nature in the first two stanza, such as vales, hales, lake, trees, breeze, etc. Even the daffodils gathered together, "I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils." In words like "sprighly, dancing, glee, gay, joncund" , the imaginary was very happy.

>>      There are strong conflicts between the speaker and the daffodils(refers to nature). One is lonely, while the other is joyful. In the first two stanzas, the speaker blocked himself outside the nature, though he saw how beautiful the scenery was. He personified the daffodils who had emotions in actions, but he said he was lonely as a cloud, as looking high from the sky, so far away from the happy crowd. He was not participant. Cloud though is a part of nature, and it may have company. But in this poem, the main part is daffodils and things on the ground described, while the use of "cloud" contrasts to the image of flowers. So the "cloud" can mean loneliness.

>>      In the third stanza, he said he gazed and gazed and felt gay. He also asked a question: "What wealth the show to me had brought?" This is a very general question which people would ask. As the speaker, most people just "see" how beautiful the scenery is, but unlike the speaker, they seldom build vivid imaginary which gives lives to the nature. After they saw it, they forgot about it. The picture of that very moment disappeared later when their minds are full of "important things".

>>       The characteristics of a poet shows in the third stanza through the fourth. He said "They flash upon the inward eye which is the bliss of solitude." The "inward eye" shows his own mental condition of isolation. No wonder he mentioned above that he is "lonely" . Whenever he was isolated, the daffodils came to his mind with a joyful image, dancing and waving which fills Wordsworth*s heart with pleasures. And he finally danced with those flowers happily, after his first experience of lonely wandering and just watching them. But actually, it*s not the flowers dancing with him, but his own imagination of one experience of nature.

>>      This is how a poet participates with nature. He uses the meter, iambic, which gives the feeling of waving when reading.

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