I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth, a poem that discloses the relationship between nature and human beings: how nature can affect ones emotion and behavior with its motion and sound. The words the author adopted in this poem are interconnected and related to each other. They are simple yet profound, letting us understand how much William Wordsworth related his works to nature and the universe. It also explained to us why William Wordsworth is one of the greatest and the most influential English romantic poets in history. As Robert DiYanni says in his book, with much of Wordsworths poetry, this lyric reflects his deep love of nature, his vision of a unified world, and his celebration of the power of memory and imagination. In I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth uses various natural phenomena, such as clouds, daffodils and waves, as devices to characterize his speakers different stages of emotion and feeling. The first few lines of the poem showed us the speakers initial emotion. His mind is directionless, but also alienated and isolated in the universe. I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high oer vales and hills, the speaker is described as a cloud, lonely, aimless, and cruising quickly and lightly through vales and hills. A vision of the daffodils moved him to a state of being connected to something, as the poet wrote, When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils. The concord and harmony of the dancing daffodils replaced his feeling of loneliness; he is no longer a lonely cloud. As the twinkling stars in the milky way, and the sparkling dancing waves appeared in the second stanza, they danced along with the ten thousand daffodils, a new state emerged for the speaker, he started to realize the world of interconnection and relationship. He sees the universe as a harmonious whole, in which every subject reflects and echoes the other. ...
