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8220I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud8221

The daffodils became the speakers companions in the third stanza, and they were describing as the jocund company by the poet. He enjoys the company of the dancing daffodils, which brings him happiness and joy. As the poem goes on, the second emotion from the speaker occurs in the last stanza: the state of solitude. 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, the first emotion of isolation and loneliness seems to reappear here. But his mood is no longer just vacant as a lonely cloud, but pensive. His mind is now thoughtful and meditative because the existence of the daffodils. If he is vacant, he cannot remember anything; then his memory would be involuntary. Unlike the first emotion that took the speaker out of his loneliness, the second emotion repeats and recurs to the speaker, as William Wordsworth uses the word oftoften. The speaker is looking forward to his time of being alone, because the daffodils will be there to dance for him, to keep him company; as the poet writes, which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.William Wordsworth uses different groups of words in this poem to connect nature with human beings: the pattern of their motion, relation and correspondence. We can trace the change of their motion by the following words: wandered like a cloud, floats over vales and hills; the daffodils dancing and the waves danced. Another pattern of words he uses to represent how nature occupied his speakers loneliness: from lonely cloud, host of daffodils, and ten thousand daffodils to a jocund company. The number of the daffodils increased, described as host, ten thousand and then became company to the speaker. Also, the words the poet uses to picture the various images of nature: a single cloud, the fluttering daffodils, to twinkling stars in the milky way, and the sparkling waves;...

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