William Wordsworth's-"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
             In this poem, Wordsworth writes about ones experience of exploring the hills and valleys and his encounter with a field of daffodils next to a lake. The speaker personifies the daffodils, to say that they are 'fluttering and dancing in the breeze'. The speaker says that a poet could not help but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers. It comforts him to be in the presence of the daffodils. So whenever he feels 'vacant' or 'pensive' the memory flashes upon 'that inward eye' and his heart fills with pleasure 'and dances with the daffodils'.
             It is possible to suggest that Wordsworth, perhaps, wrote this poem after adapting the idea from his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, which was written two years before the poem. Dorothy Wordsworth also wrote about her encounter with a 'long belt' of daffodils and how this in a way brightened up her day, in contrast to the gloomy day that it was. Perhaps William Wordsworth wanted to interpret this extract into a poem as it allowed him to exaggerate the whole experience using poetic techniques, which will engage the reader into a whole new world, more than the prose his sister wrote would.
             The poem is made up of four six-line stanzas, with the first four lines being a regular alternate rhyme scheme and each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet. Each line is metered in iambic tetrameter, which gives the poem a rhythmic feel to it, which in turn makes the poem more interesting and pleasurable to read.
             In the famous and first line of the poem, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', it is a form of reverse personification, where the speaker is almost, so to speak, 'nature-ised'. This line can also be interpreted as the speaker being metaphorically compared to a natural object, the cloud, where as the daffodils are continua...