William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a wonderful tribute to the scene he witnesses one day while out walking near his English Lake District home. Wordsworth is considered one of the greatest English Romantic poets and often wrote about nature. While he originally appreciates the beauty of the field of daffodils, he realizes later how profoundly they had touched him.
Wordsworth uses both simile and personification to describe the allure of...
William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a wonderful tribute to the scene he witnesses one day while out walking near his English Lake District home. Wordsworth is considered one of the greatest English Romantic poets and often wrote about nature. While he originally appreciates the beauty of the field of daffodils, he realizes later how profoundly they had touched him.
Wordsworth uses both simile and personification to describe the allure of the flowers. A simile is a comparison of two things using like or as. In the title and opening line he compares himself to a wandering cloud. In the second stanza he compares the daffodils to the stars, because they are so numerous:
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way
A personification is when human qualities are given to non-human things. He personifies the daffodils by suggesting they are dancing:
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
The last stanza of the poem tells how the image of the flowers has a lasting effect on Wordsworth as he often thinks about them when he is alone or in deep thought.
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