There was here & there a little knot & a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity & unity & life of that one busy highway – We rested again & again.
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This wind blew directly over the lake to them. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed and reeled and danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing. When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side, we fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore & that the little colony had so sprung up – But as we went along there were more & yet more & 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 country turnpike road. Turner – Ullswater from Gobarrow Park, watercolor, 1819, Whitworth Art Gallery It was inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk: File:J M W Turner - Ullswater from Gobarrow Park.jpg Wordsworth would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804. The inspiration for the poem came from a walk he took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. Often anthologised, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is commonly seen as a classic of English romantic poetry, although Poems in Two Volumes was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries. In the "Nation's Favourite Poems", a poll carried out by the BBC's Bookworm, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" came fifth. It is generally considered Wordsworth's most famous work. Written some time between 18 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. And thus it is the complete rejection of the newly developed industrial world and an escape to nature and the rustic world.That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills, Throughout the poem, the poet emphasises nature and natural things. There is no use of materialistic examples. The poet thus wants us to feel the beauty of nature. In stanza 3, he compares them with the waves of the lake. In stanza 2, he compares Daffodils with a galaxy of stars. In the poem, the poet uses various things to describe the beauty, joy and elegance of the daffodils. Thus the memory of the daffodils becomes his companion in his solitude and taking away all his sorrows and boredom make his spirit dance with them. His heart is then filled with pleasure and dances with the daffodils. Their memory then becomes the source of joy in his solitude. In the fourth and final stanza, the poet says that while sitting on his couch (a kind of bench) and in vacant (when he is idle) or in pensive mood (when he is sorrowful), the memories of those daffodils flash upon his inward eye i.e. W ealth here means ‘ happiness‘.įor the Romantics, nature and its beauty was the ultimate wealth and because it was in abundance, he could take away just a little bit of it though he kept watching them.
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However, he could not fully appreciate the scenery before him. kept looking on the daffodils and their dance. Hence in the poem, the poet concludes that seeing the daffodils dancing along the lake is the dream of every poet including him and being there is like dream coming true.Īnd thus the poet gazed-and gazed i.e. The poet says that the daffodils stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay. The bay here refers to the lake. The second stanza begins with the comparison between daffodils along the lake and stars in the Milkyway. Stanza 2 Continuous as the stars that shine
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Hence this is the example of juxtaposition in I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud. In a way, the poet imagines as if the daffodils possess the qualities of both thus of the world and the meta world. Again the poet personifies the daffodils by showing them as flapping (wings of birds or in imaginations that of angels) and dancing (like humans) in the moving breeze. The daffodils seem to be fluttering and dancing in the breeze. along with the shores of the lake and below the trees because they are small. According to the poet, he sees a large number of daffodils beside the lake, beneath the treesi.e. The poet calls daffodils golden rather than yellow in order to express their majesty and beauty.