this presentation is an analysis of William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud Analysis.

1. William Wordsworth's I Wandered
Lonely As A Cloud Analysis
Femmy Rachmawati

2. Abstract
This paper, the author wants to analyze a poem,
entitled “I Wandered LonelyAs A Cloud” written
by William Wordsworth. The purpose of this
writing is to analyze the intrinsic elements of this
poem. This research uses Musical Devices(Rhyme)
and Imagery (Organic).
Keyword: William Wordsworth, Biography,
Rhyme, Organic Imagery.

3. Introduction
According to William Flint Thrall and Addison
Hibbard in “A Handbook To Literature” (1960: 364),
“Poetry: A term applied to the many forms in which
man has given a rhytmic exppression to his most
imaginative and intense preseptions of his world,
himself, and the interrelationship of the two.”
We can understood the poetry by analyzing it.
Analyzing poetry is an activity to explore what
are the elements and find out the real meaning that
the writer wants to show on the poem. The writer uses
poem I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William
Wordsworth to be analyzed.

4. Methodology
a. To analyze the rhyme in William Wordsworth, I
Wandered Lonely As A Cloud.
b. To analyze the imagery in William Wordsworth, I
Wandered LonelyAs A Cloud.
Research Object
Research objective are the result sought by the
researcher at the end of the research process, i.e. what
the reseacher will be able to achieve at the end of the
research study.

5. Biography and Poem
According to “The Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume 2” William
Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. The
8-year-old William Wordsworth was sent to at Hawkshead after his mother death. There he
met the headmaster William Taylor who lent him some books and encouraged his inclination
in poetry.
His father, John Wordsworth, died suddenly when Wordsworth was 13. John
Wordworth’s children were left in difficulties of continuing life. Nevertheless, Wordsworth was
able to go to St. John’s college at Cambridge in 1787.
In 1790, during the summer vacation of his thurd year in Cambridge, he went on a
tour with his friend, Robert Jones, to France and Alps. He seemed to be interested with France
that after completing his course in Cambridge he went back to France alone to master the
language and qualify as travelling tutor. A year in France, 1971-1972, he fell in love with a
young French woman, AnneteVallon, an impetuous and warm-hearted daughter of a French
surgeon. They were planned to marry. However, the lack of fund forced Wordsworth to left
Annette to England only after their daughter, Caroline, was born. The war of England and
France then prevented Wordsworth to meet Annette anymore.
Wordsworth gained prosperity and reputation of his great poems. He published the
Poems in Two Volumes in 1807 in which most of his great poems were. He continued writings
though it was not as great as before. Because his great influences in literature that time , he
was awarded honorary degrees. And in 1843 he was appointed as the poet laureate. He died in
1850 at age 80, only then he executors published his masterpiece of the autobiographical
poems which he had begun in 1798, The Prelude, where the A Complaint is in.

6. 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.
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:
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. Discussion
b. Imagery Organic
• Stanza 4 line 2
In vacant or in pensive mood,
The words ‘vacant’and ‘pensive mood’ is organic imagery because
internal sensation.
• Stanza 4 line 4
Which is the bliss of solitude;
The words ‘solitude’ is organic imagery because internal sensation that the
writer feels the solitude.
• Stanza 4 line 5
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
The words ‘heart’and ‘pleasure is organic imagery because the writer feels his
heart is fills with pleasure.

8. a. Rhyme
In this poem, Wordsworth uses an a-b-a-b-c-c rhyme. The words that pointed this case are:
• Stanza 1 : cloud, hills, crowd, daffodills, trees, breeze.
On the first line, Wordsworth uses word cloud to relate the word crowd at the line 3, word
hills at line 2 with word daffodils at line 4, and also trees at line 5 and breeze at line 6
• Stanza 2 : shine, way, line, bay, glance, dance.
On the line 7, Wordsworth uses the stars that shine rather than “shining stars” because he
wants to relate shine with line in line 9. On the line 10, he doesn’t use word “bay margin”, but
margin of a bay in order to relate with word way in line 8. And also, word glance in line
11 with word dance in line 12.
• Stanza 3 : they, glee, gay, company, thought, brought.
At line 13, he doesn’t end the line with them danced but but they to match the word they
with gay in line 15. On the line 18 the writer doesn’t write the sentence grammatically
correct, instead, he writes the show to me had brought to get the same rhyme with word
little thought in line 17. In line 14 he makes sure to relate the word glee with a make sense
word, in this case is company in line 16 It can be seen by him choosing the word company
eventhough it doesn’t end with ee.
• Stanza 4 : lie, mood, eye, solitude, fills, daffodils.
At the line 19, he doesn’t use I lie on my couch but on my couch I lie because he wants to
make the word lie related to the word eye in the line 21. On the line 23 he does not use fills
in the end of the sentence but pleasure. If he chooses word fills in the end of the line it has a
similar rhyme with word daffodils in line 24. He choose the word mood in line 20 to make
the same pronunciation with the word solitude in the word in line 22.

9. Conclusion
Daffodils is a poem written by William Wordsworth.
This poem is interesting because we can see how
Wordsworth describes himself in beautiful ways as poem.
Hecompares himself with the cloud that wondering lonely,
free from responsibility and work, and here and there like
a cloud. Then, he found a beautiful place that fills with a
crowd of golden daffodils. At that place he feel comfortable
and when he feel sad, he would come to that place and he
could remember all good things and pleasureable things.
In this paper the writer choose to analyze the
imagery and musical devices. The kinds of imagery that
will be focus on visual, kinesthetic, and organic imagery.
As musical devices, this study will be discussed about
rhyme.

10. References
Abram, M. H. And friends, eds. 1962. The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, Vol.2.New York:
W. W. Northon and Company, Inc.
Perrine, Laurence. 1969. 3th ed.Sound and Sense:
An Introduction to Poetry. United States of
America: Harcourt College Pub.
Thrall, William Flint, and Addison Hibbard. 1960.
A Handbook To Literature. New York: Odyssey
Press.