e.@It was here that Wordsworth obtained the position of distributor of stamps for@Westmorland at a salary of 400 pounds a year. Except for a few vacations, Wordsworth@would spend the rest of his life here. Wordsworth was appointed poet laureate of England@in 1843. He died in 1850, and was buried in the Grasmere churchyard.@gBut it was Wordsworth who brought into English literature that deep, poetic@appreciation of nature, amounting almost to extravagance, that has since become@characteristic of much of it. Love of nature was not merely a decorative part of his verse;@it was its chief impulse and subjecth ( The Book of Knowledge 2489 ).I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a perfect example of Wordsworthfs deep@appreciation for nature. The title has to do with nature, and suggests that the poem will@be about nature. The title also makes it very clear that the speaker, almost certainly@Wordsworth, is lonely.@The repetition of the title as the first line of the poem serves to emphasize the fact@that the speaker is lonely. When the speaker says that he gfloats on high,h it shows that@he is not only lonely, he feels separated from the rest of the world. While the speaker is@wondering around, he comes to a field full of daffodils. These daffodils are very happy. @They are dancing in the breeze and having a great time. By saying that the daffodils are@dancing, Wordsworth personifies them. This makes it seem that the speaker is not alone@in a field of daffodils; he is in a field surrounded by little, happy people.There are not just a lot of daffodils with the speaker, the daffodils stretch out as@far as outer space, never ending. The speaker can see ten thousand by just glancing. @Every single one of the daffodils is dancing. Wordsworth says that the daffodils are@dancing gsprightly.h Sprightly means that the daffodils are dancing like fairies. In@folklore, fairies were generally considered beneficial to humans, and Wordsworth is@descri...
