Hi my name is Arthur Elwin and today I am going to be analysing a poem by William Wordsworth called I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

The speaker says that, wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys, he found a field of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing, fluttering daffodils stretched endlessly along the shore of the lake and looked very beautiful. The speaker says that a poet could not help but be happy in the field of daffodils. He says that he stared and stared, but did not realize how important this place was because now, whenever he feels vacant he remembers the field of and his heart fills with pleasure. The poems main brilliance lies in the reverse personification of its first couple of stanzas. The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloudI wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high, and the daffodils are continually personified as humans, dancing and tossing their heads in a crowd/a host. This reverse personification implies a unity between man and nature. The rhyming pattern is ABABCC. This makes the poem flow better and sounds nicer at the end through the rhyming in the last two lines. There is some slight alliteration in high oer vales and hills and with when all at once because once have the same starting sound as when even if the letters are not the same and with beside the lake, beneath the trees. Here once again the poem uses reverse personification to make the daffodils like humans and Wordsworth like a thing of nature and the rhyming pattern is once again ABABCC. The word dancing and dance is repeated in all four stanzas so Wordsworth is obviously trying to plant a picture of all of these flowers dancing very much in the readers head. As well as this he uses a good mixture of verbs and adjectives but the verbs are more helping to describe the scene planting a strong image in the readers mind. This whole stanza is comparing the lake to the flowers and making the flowers sound even better and more special. In this stanza he uses a large amount of happy words such as glee, gay and jocund giving the stanza a very happy feel. Once again the word dance is used. Also there is slight repetition of the word gazed made it almost like a hyperbole and the rhyming pattern is once again ABABCC giving it a very nice flow. A theme that is shown in this stanza is people sometimes fail to appreciate nature's wonders as they go about their daily routines which is shown through lines 17 and 18. Now the poet begins to use the present tense after having formerly used the past tense. Dance is used once again and the rhyming scheme is the same. A theme that is mentioned in this and the former stanza is that natures beauty uplifts the human spirit and lines 15, 23, and 24 specifically refer to this idea. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a lyric poem focusing on the poet's response to the beauty of nature. (A lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet rather than telling a story) I think the message of the poem is that the daffodils grow in splendour along the shore of the lake without any human attention. By comparing himself to a cloud in the first line of the poem, the speaker shows his close bond with the nature that surrounds him. He also demonstrates this connection by personifying the daffodils several times, by calling them a "crowd" as if they are a group of people. Very abstract with a large difference between the blue sky and the yellow ground that almost makes they blend together as a mass of colours.