I Wandered lonely as a Cloud

1. I Wandered lonely as a
Cloud
By: William Wordsworth

2. William Wordsworth
Born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth Cumberland,
England
English Romantic Poet
The great decade: 1797–1808
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(lyrical ballads)
most widely recognized for bringing off the
Romantic era in English literature
died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount,
Westmorland

3. Notable works
• Tintern Abbey
• Lyrical Ballad
• Michael
• Ode: Intimations of Immorality
• Peter Bell
• The excursion
• The Prelude
• The Recluse
• The Ruined Cottage
• The Solitary Reaper
• The world is too much with us

4. Trivia
Wordsworth wrote a guidebook to
the region of his home called, “A
guide through The District of the
Lakes.”

5. I wandered lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

6. I wandered lonely as a Cloud
The waves beside them danced; but
they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little
thought
What wealth the show to me had
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils

7. Key Points
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and
hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
• Roaming around
• Compare life to a cloud that floats
high in the valley
• Saw large number of golden
daffodils

8. Key Points
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly
dance.
• Comparison between daffodils along
the lake and stars in the milky way
• Saw daffodils moving and dancing
happily

9. Key Points
The waves beside them danced; but
they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little
thought
What wealth the show to me had
brought:
• Saw the waves danced but not as
happy as the daffodils did.
• Daffodils joyful company was the
ultimate source of wealth
• Ultimate source of joy for the
romantics was nature and its
appreciation

10. Key Points
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure
fills,
And dances with the daffodils
• Memories of daffodils in the
times of sorrow or worries flash
upon his inward eye. (romantic
vision)
• Memories of beautiful nature
becomes the source of joy in his
solitude

11. Theme
The beauty of nature
Nature and Humanity
•Involvement of human to natural
beauty
•Impact of nature to human

12. How does the poem "I wandered
lonely as a cloud" use poetic and
literary devices?

13. Poetic Devices
• Stanza
 4 stanza
• Lines
 6 lines in every stanza
• Rhyme scheme
 ABABCC

14. Literary devices
•Simile: “ I wandered lonely as a Cloud”, “ continues as
the stars that shine.”
•Personification: “ when all at once I saw a crowd”,
Tossing their heads and sprightly dance”, “In a jocund
company.”
•Alliteration: “ I gazed and gazed”, What wealth the
show to me had brought.”
•Symbols: cloud- loneliness, daffodils- beauty of
nature, joy, peace, company in loneliness

15. Literary devices
• Assonance: “ Ten thousand I saw a glance”, “they
stretch in never-ending”
• Consonance: “” what wealth the show to me had
brought”, “Vacant or in pensive.”
• Metaphor: “They flash upon that inward eye.”
• Imagery: “lonely as a cloud”, “ a crowd”, “never-
ending line”, “milky way”, “jocund company”
• Hyperbole: “ Ten thousand saw I at a glance”

16. What makes the poem romantic?

17. Thank You for Listening!