Transformation of one’s state of mind by beholding natural

Starting the poem Wordsworth depicts himself as “wander[ing] lonely as a cloud”, in this line the poet is represented as a lonely person - he is all alone there. By using a simile Wordsworth compares himself to a cloud - such comparison reinforces the feeling of loneliness because the cloud “floats on high o’er vales and hills”. It is all alone high up in the sky, far away from other clouds; it doesn’t have any defined direction - just floats on its own above the landscape. By creating such a sad scene Wordsworth makes us understand what the speaker feels. We may sense the melancholic mood that one gets into when detached from the whole world. I may assume that the person in the poem is far away from the unity of people; he feels lost and desolate wandering around. The vales and hills may also represent an implied metaphor for negative and positive moments in one’s life. It could be understood either as the speaker traveling alone on his road of life, experiencing good or bad

The connection between the natural scene and the speaker’s state of mind is described in a very elegant way. The figurative language used by Wordsworth creates exquisite images, which help us perceive the meaning of the poem.

With the next line we are getting down from the sky to earth, as if the cloud enchanted by the view of the cumulus of flowers decided to examine them from close distance. The speaker is “[b] eside the lake, beneath the trees” now and he sees the daffodils “[f] luttering and dancing in the breeze”. We realize that the mood of the speaker has changed: he is not occupied with his solitude anymore. The loneliness, which was his major concern in the beginning of the poem has disappeared, the dancing daffodils have fascinated the speaker. An additional possibility of understanding the stanza is a comparison of the speaker to a sad lonely person wandering around, who suddenly encounters a crowd of merry and friendly people. He is surprised and pleased by feeling something he never felt before. In the next stanza Wordsworth describes those dancing daffodils as “[c] ontinuous as the stars that shine/ [a] nd twinkle on the milky way”. The poet compares the flowers to the stars because there are so many of them just as there are many of stars on the Milky Way. Wh

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