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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud   ~ William Wordsworth

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud   ~ William Wordsworth. I wandered lonely as a cloud simile That floats 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 trees ,

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud   ~ William Wordsworth

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  1. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud   ~ William Wordsworth

  2. I wandered lonely as a cloud simile That floats 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 trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Alternating rhyme creates a swaying “to and “fro” movement to the poem (that mimics the dancing daffodils.)

  3. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, simile 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. personification

  4. The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee: A Poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: Could be too sweet, trite. I gazed—and gazed—but little thought Repetition intensifies the gazing. What wealth the show to me had brought: anastrophe (inversion for emphasis and rhyme) Colon signals a shift in time . . .

  5. For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, Another time, place, and different kind of solitude (also a suggestion of loneliness, like the earlier cloud) They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude; These two lines were composed by Wordsworth’s wife – he thought them the best in the poem. And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. The memory of nature can restore lost joy – a distinct Romantic notion.

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