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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

William Wordsworth is a famous Romantic English poet known for his imagery. In his poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud," we can see his use of imagery and emotion at its best. This also happens to be one of my favorite poems.

This poem's plot is simple. We the reader are being taken along for a magical trip that the author is recounting. The speaker says that while wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys he encounters a field of daffodils beside a lake. These dancing, fluttering flowers caught the heart of our speaker. We can obviously see that this moment in his life has meant a great deal to him. He says that a poet could not help but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers. He also says whenever he feels "vacant" or "pensive" the memory flashes upon "that inward eye / That is the bliss of solitude," and his heart fills with pleasure "and dances with the daffodils."


I often read this poem when I feel out of sorts and it is always able to relax me and make me feel like a wandering cloud. Thus, I also use this experience the speaker had as an escape.

In the last stanza, he mentions that he thinks about this place when he is alone and it makes him happy. He uses this cloud and his experience as a vehicle of escape. Overall this poem is very peaceful and gives off a feeling of tranquility. It is about a man confronting external nature and how with his imagination it can fulfill him. His creativity seems to be encouraged by the nature around him.

The cloud he mentions is used not to represent loneliness, but rather, aloneness. Like they say, "there is a difference between begin lonely and being alone." The poet thinks of himself as like the cloud in the sense of being free and being able to look at such beauty. He mentions the words "solitude" and "lonely,â

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Romantic English, William Wordsworth, solitude heart, inward eye, cloud experience, lines poem, bliss solitude, wandering cloud, bliss solitude heart,

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