#I wander lonely as a cloud by william wordsworth for free
For instance there’s another simile in the lineĪnyway, where ever you are in the world, whether it’s spring or autumn, or Summer or Winter, you can always drop by at for free stories and poems. Similes often have the word “like” or “as” in them. Perhaps you can guess that the poet is in a dreamy mood with his “head in the clouds” which is why he is all the more surprised when suddenly sees the colourful crowd of of daffodils. You can also imagine a picture of a gentle cloud floating over the hills. In this case it’s saying that both the poet and a cloud are “lonely”. Afterthoughtīertie has asked me to tell you that a phrase like, “I wondered lonely as a cloud” is called a simile, because it finds something similar in two different things. I gazed - and gazed - but little thoughtĪnd dances with the daffodils. That floats on high o'er vales and hills, Kindly sponsored by the The Center for Guided Montessori Studies She writes these "Post Recording Reviews" shortly after the recordings when the impressions of the stories or poems are still fresh in her mind. David here.Īnd don't miss Natasha's thoughts on the poem here. David, whose celebration falls on March 1st, because Daffodils are closely associated with Wales. And it's also one that might appeal to you if you are getting in the mood for Wales's patron saint, St. It's a lovely poem to listen to when Spring is on its way. It was written by William Wordsworth in 1802 after one of his many walks in the England's Lake District. He continued to live there for the rest of his life, with his wife, Mary, and his devoted sister, Dorothy."I wandered lonely as a cloud" must rank as one of the most famous lines of poetry in the English language. His autobiographical poem The Prelude chronicles the spiritual growth and life of the poet, revealing the intense relationship Wordsworth had with nature as he was growing up in the Lake District.
Wordsworth had been caught up in the French Revolution, had fathered an illegitimate daughter with a young Frenchwoman and returned to England with radical and democratic ideas (although his views became increasingly conservative in middle age).
In celebrating nature and human emotions, he was an early leader of the English Romantic movement. He believed that poetry could use the real language of ordinary people in a state of ‘vivid sensation’. He published the influential Lyrical Ballads, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in 1798, rejecting the contrived, self-consciously poetic language that was fashionable at the time. Wordsworth’s early poems transformed the way in which poets came to express themselves. The imagery of this poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, is created mainly by the: answer choices. It clearly means a large number but there is also an association with the act of Holy Communion where the “host” is the wafer. Consider also the use of the word “host”. For example, look at the way Wordsworth uses the idea of dancing as a thread running through the poem. Was Byron being unfair by describing the poem as not simple but childish? Certainly this is not a difficult poem to understand but perhaps it is easy to underestimate its subtlety.
The Romantic idea of the poet being somehow different or a lonely outsider is also prominent. In many ways this is a quintessentially Romantic poem with its obvious love of Nature and preoccupation with the relationship between man, Nature, imagination and memory. What do you think accounts for its very real and enduring popularity? This new version includes revisions and an additional verse, and is t. And yet this is a much loved poem memorised by many. William Wordsworth published a new version of I wandered lonely as a Cloud in 1815. There is a thoroughly unreliable story enjoyed by those who like to have fun at the expense of the poem that Wordsworth originally wrote “I wandered lonely as a cow” until persuaded by his sister to change cow to “cloud” and Lord Byron described the poem as “puerile”.
“Daffodils” is not only one of Wordsworth’s most well-known and anthologised poems but also one of the most familiar poems in English Literature with its much quoted opening line.
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