The first few lines of the poem portrays the speaker’s initial emotion. “I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o’er vales and hills,” the speaker is described as a “cloud,” lonely, aimless, and cruising quickly and lightly through “vales” and “hills.” A vision of the daffodils moved him to a state of being connected to something, as the poet wrote, “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.” The concord and harmony of the “dancing daffodils” replaced his feeling of loneliness; he is no longer a “lo

William Wordsworth uses different groups of words in this poem to connect nature with human beings: the pattern of their motion, relation and correspondence. One can trace the change of their motion by the following words: “wandered” like a cloud, “floats” over vales and hills; the daffodils “dancing” and the waves “danced.” Another pattern of words he uses to represent how nature occupied his speaker’s loneliness: from “lonely” cloud, “host” of daffodils, and “ten thousand” daffodils to a “jocund company.” The number of the daffodils increased, described as “host,” “ten thousand” and then became “company” to the speaker. Also, the words the poet uses to picture the various images of nature: a single “cloud,” the fluttering “daffodils,” to “twinkling stars” in the milky way, and the sparkling “waves;” not only the poet understood the correlation between nature and human beings, he also sensed the presence of the universe. William Wordsworth adopted two different tenses to describe his speaker’s emotion in the poem: the past tense in first three stanzas, and the present tense in the last stan

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