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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born in 1770, the 7 thof April, in England and died

at the age of 80 !e was a "omanti# poet, who wrote important papers, su#h as

$Lyri#al %allads&, $'oems in (wo )olumes&, $(he E*#ursion&, $(he 'relude&+a

semiautobiographi#al poem, $I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud& and many more

(he one I am about to approa#h is $I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud& or

$-a.odils&, /nown as a lyri#al poem, one of William Wordsworth famous wor/

(he poem was written between 1801807 and was published for the 2rst

time in 1807 in $'oems in two )olumes& and as a re3ised 3ersion, in 1814

$I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud& was a#tually inspired by a real e3ent In3olume 5 of $(he 'oeti#al Wor/s of William Wordsworth&, we a#tually ha3e a

pie#e of his sister6s diary, -orothy $When we were in the woods beyond

owbarrow 'ar/, we saw a few da.odils #lose to the water side We fan#ied that

the sea had 9oated the seeds ashore, and that the little #olony had so sprung up

%ut as we went along there were more, and yet more: and, at last, under the

boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore,

about the breadth of a #ountry turnpi/e road I ne3er saw da.odils so

beautiful (hey grew among the mossy stones, about and abo3e them: some

rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow for weariness: and the rest

tossed and reeled and dan#ed, and seemed as if they 3erily laughed with the

wind that blew upon them o3er the la/e (hey loo/ed so gay, e3er glan#ing,

e3er #hanging (his wind blew dire#tly o3er the la/e to them (here was here and

there a little /not, and a few stragglers higher up: but they were so few as not to

disturb the simpli#ity, unity, and life of that one busy highway We rested again

and again (he bays were stormy, and we heard the wa3es at di.erent distan#es,

and in the middle of the water, li/e the sea;

(he plot of the poem is

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@e*t stan?a begins by ma/ing a #omparison between the stars and

the 9owers -a.odils are seen by the poet shining brightly and there are so

many that he #annot #ount them It is a $ne3erending line& of da.odils (his

appears to be as a hyperbole !e manages to #ount ten thousand dan#ing

9owers, that were li3ely, oyful Again, the da.odils are personi2ed

(hird stan?a shows us the fa#t that the wa3es also dan#ed in the

bree?e, but they didn6t do it as lo3ely as the 9owers did (he 9owers are always

putted on the 2rst pla#e Again, we ha3e the ade#ti3e spar/ling whi#h shows us

the #onne#tion with the stars In the ne*t lines, we sense the presen#e of the

author again +as in the 2rst line and he refers to himself as $a poet& =f #ourse,

he admits that he #annot be sad, in su#h a #heerful #ompany In the last lines, we

ha3e a repetition B $I ga?edand ga?ed&, repetition that a##entuates the fa#t

that he was loo/ing for a long period at them, e3en #ontemplating them !e is

a#tually surprised of what fortune he has found

Dinally, the last stan?a enters with the pi#ture of the poet, sitting on

his #ou#h, an image that ma/es us belie3e it is something that he does for a long

time !e uses the two terms, $3a#ant& and $pensi3e&, to e*press the the

melan#holy that gets to him and the fa#t that he will be free to do whate3er he

wants, but still, he will thin/ about the da.odils E3en then, he will ha3e the

image of the beautiful 9owers, whi#h to him, is a#tually a blessed aspe#t of the

$solitude&, of the part of being alone, but not lonely, though (he image of the

da.odils brings up to his heart only oy, gladness and gra#e to dan#e with them

(he heart is also seen here as a human being, be#ause she is able to dan#e

We #an say, by reading the te*t, that the spea/er is a lonely poet, with

some good #lues that he is a "omanti# poet !e has a sensiti3ity for nature and

this thing is seen in all the stan?as It is #lear that he ta/es wal/s in the nature,he enoys it and he will e3en thin/ of them when he will be older We #an tell that

he has de3eloped passion for nature e3en from the 2rst line, when he #ompares

himself to a #loud, and then, when he brings up the 3ales, the hills, the la/e, the

trees and the wa3es (hey all mean something to him =f #ourse, the theme of

the poem is the beauty of the nature

About the title of the poem we #an thin/, at the beginning, that this

writing will be about loneliness, when, instead, is all about the oy of nature (he

author is a#tually using the 2rst line from his poem to name it %ut also, the

poem is /nown as $-a.odils&

Also, @ational ardens #heme has a -a.odil -ay when they allow 3isitors

to 3iew the da.odils in Cumbrian gardens (he tourism board from William

Wordsworth home #ounty released a rap 3ersion of the poem, with FC @uts, a

red s

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@ote the topi# of the essay was to dis#uss the theme of natureGtourism with the "omanti#s

through one poem of your #hoi#e Hou may refer to Wordsworth, helley, eats