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 Outline
1. The writer
2. Summary
3. Setting
4. Characters
5. Annalysis the poem
6. Theme
THE WRITER

William Wordsworth

LIFE

 William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850)

 Born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
 Wordsworth’s mother died when he was eight
 Studied at Hawkshead Grammar School and St. John’s College in
Cambridge
 Married Mary Hutchinson
THE WRITER

CAREER

 532 Sonnet poems

 A founder of the Romantic Movement of English
Literature
 A Lakeland Poet
 earliest poetry was published in 1793 in the
collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches
THE WRITER

WRITING STYLE

 The use of what Wordsworth calls “the language really used by

men.”
 The preoccupation emotion, and in particular what Wordsworth
called “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from
emotions recollected in tranquility.”
SUMMARY
 SETTING

• William wordsworth composed “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

while he and his sister, Dorothy, were talking near a lake at
Grasmere, Cumbria County, England, and came upon a shore lined
with daffodils.
• “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a lyric poem focusing on the
poet’s response to the beauty of nature.
• The earlier version wrote in 1804, two years after seeing the
lakeside daffodils that inspired the poem. It was published in
Poems in Two Volumes in 1807. The final version was published
in Collected Poems in 1815.
 CHARACTERS

• In "I wandered lonely as a Cloud," the daffodils are like little yellow
people who keep the speaker company when he is feeling lonely.
• The happiness of the daffodils can always cheer him up, and he can tell
that they are happy because they dance.
• Some variation of the word "dance" occurs in each of the four stanzas.
• Also, the speaker is taken aback by how many daffodils there are. We
often think of daffodils as a flower that people plant in their gardens in
the springtime so it would be surprising to come upon thousands of them
by an isolated lake
 ANALYZE
STANZA 1

_A rhyming scheme throughout the I wandered lonely as a cloud (A)

poem. The rhyming scheme is so simple
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, (B)
“ABABCC”.
When all at once I saw a crowd, (A)
The first four lines of each stanza has a
rhyming scheme of “ABAB”. While the A host, of golden daffodils; (B)
ending two lines, are the rhyming couplet. Beside the lake, beneath the trees, (C)
Each stanza makes use of “Enjambment”
which converts the poem into a Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. (C)
continuous flow of expressions without a
pause.
 ANALYZE
STANZA 1
• Line 1-2
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
_Line 1: Simile - “as”: The poet assumes that himself as a cloud.
Personification – “lonely”
_Line 2: Archaic words: “o’er” means over and “vale” means valley.
_Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of similar sounds, is applied for the word 'h',
in the words – “high” and “hills”.
_"Wandered" means roaming around without a purpose, like when you explore
something. But in its metaphorical use, "wandered" can mean feeling purposeless and
directionless in general.
 The poet compares himself to a cloud walking without an aim and represents
the idea of the loneliness.
 ANALYZE
STANZA 1

• Line 3-4
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
_The words “crowd” and “host” mean a large number of people. Hence the poet
uses personification and attributes the human qualities to daffodils.
_Metaphor: The poet calls daffodils “golden” rather than yellow in order to
express their majesty and beauty.
=> Contrast between the loneliness of the poet and the crowd of the
daffodils.
 ANALYZE
STANZA 1
• Line 5-6
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
_Personification: the poet personifies the daffodils to people who can move and
dance. The physical movement of “dancing” reflects the psychological state of the
daffodils happiness and liveness.
Summary stanza 1: The poet starts his poem by painting a picture of himself walking
aimlessly, like a cloud in the sky when suddenly he saw a group of beautiful golden
daffodils.
The poet uses various things to describe the beauty, joy and elegance of the daffodils.
=>His feeling and thought about nature (daffodils).
 ANALYZE
STANZA 2

Continuous as the stars that shine  Words meaning:

And twinkle on the milky way, Twinkle (v): shine with an unsteady light
They stretched in never-ending line
The milky way (n): the galaxy
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Stretch (v): making something wider and
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. longer
Margin (n): the edge of something
Glance (n): a quickly look
Toss (n): move or lift something quickly and
suddenly
Sprightly (adj): full of life and energy.
 ANALYZE
STANZA 2
 Rhetorical measures:
The rhyme:
Shine (line 1)- line (line 3)
Way (line 2)- bay (line 4)
Glance (line 5)- dance (line 6)
Simile: “Continuous as the stars”
 Having a lot of daffodils like the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Hyperbole:
They stretched in never-ending line
 The flowers are concentrated in a line that stretches endlessly and
we don’t see the end point.
 ANALYZE
STANZA 2
 Rhetorical measures:
The rhyme:
Personification:
Shine (line 1)- line (line 3)
TenWay
thousand
(line 2)- saw I at4)a glance,
bay (line
Tossing
Glancetheir heads
(line 5)- dance in sprightly
(line 6) dance
 Daffodils can“Continuous
Simile: dance andastoss as human and becomes more specific
the stars”
and lively.
 Having a lot of daffodils like the stars in the Milky Way
Summarygalaxy. the second stanza: the daffodils all along the
shore. Because there are many of them, they remind the
Hyperbole:
speaker ofThey thestretched
Milky inWay, the galaxy
never-ending line that scientist say
 The about
contains flowers one
are concentrated in a line
trillion stars. The thatspeaker
stretches humanizes
endlessly and we don’t see the end point.
the daffodils like human when he say that they can dance
 ANALYZE
STANZA 3
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:
Word meaning:
Out-did (adj): better
Sparkling (adj): twinkle
Glee (n): happiness
Gay (adj): joyful
Jocund (adj): cheerful
Gaze (v): look
 ANALYZE
STANZA 3

 Rhetorical measures:
Personification:
The waves beside them danced;
 The waves are visualized like a friend of daffodils that are dancing and having fun
together.
Repetition:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
 The author wants to emphasize the sheer beauty of natural color, which makes people
want to immerse themselves.
 the author is romantic poet and imaginative person.
 ANALYZE
STANZA 4

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.
Word meaning:
Vacant (adj): showing no showing no thought, intelligence, or
interest
Pensive (adj): thinking deeply (about something)
Bliss (n): very great happiness
Solitude (n): the state of being alone
 ANALYZE
STANZA 4
Line 1-2
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
- The words “vacant” and “pensive” mean vaguely unpleasant
and dissatisfying.
Line 3-4
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
- The “inward eye” means visual imagination that takes the poet
to the world of past recollection. It is something that can not be
shared with other people.
“Bliss of solitude”: The memory of dancing and fluttering
daffodils fills the poet heart with pleasure.
 ANALYZE
STANZA 4
Line 5-6
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
-Personification: The poet personifies his heart as a human
being who is dancing with the daffodils.
=>The poet’s intense feelings about the daffodil

Summary of stanza 4 In the last paragraph, daffodils show its natural beauty
expression. Flowers show the beauty or beauty reconciles salvation, manifest on
the journey. The deposition in the mind of the poet, daffodils is only memories.
The Oxymoron: "bliss" and "solitude" emphasizes solitude - the curse that the
poet bear romantic poem penetrated more than anyone else: they change
humanity gnawing pain.
THEMES

• Theme of happiness : : “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze” the poem makes us
feel good about life by using the power of imagination.
• The theme of loneliness : “I wandered lonely as a cloud “ that could be affected by
daily routines.
• Nature’s beauty uplifts the human spirit.
• Theme of rejecting city life and going back to the Mother Nature.
• Memory and the Past: the poet can always draw on his imagination to reproduce
the joy of the event and to remember the spiritual wisdom that it provided.
• Powers of imagination.