By: Dominic Piedmont
Born in 1770, and wrote the poem in 1804
Mother died when he was 8 and father died
later
Attended Hawkshead Grammar School
Two children died young, third died later in
life
Credited with starting Romantic Period
Close to his sister
Who is the speaker ?
What era was it written in?
Themes of the poem.
Simple pleasures
“And [my heart] dances with the daffodils”
“A poet could not but be gay”
Rebirth and Hope
Daffodils representative of this
Depression
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”
“In vacant or in pensive mood”
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
I wandered lonely as a cloud simile
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
I wandered lonely as a cloud simile
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. End
stopped line
I wandered lonely as a cloud simile
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
Enjambment
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. End
stopped line
I wandered lonely as a cloud simile
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
Enjambment
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. End
stopped line
Personification
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End
Stopped Line
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Couplet
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End
Stopped Line
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
Enjambment
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Couplet
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End
Stopped Line
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
Enjambment
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Couplet
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End
Stopped Line
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
Caesura
Personification
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
Caesura
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;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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; Paradox
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
“ “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" dramatizes an experience
of the sublime” (Brennan).
“… the flowers simply bring psychological ease:
The lonely poet sees the "jocund company" and becomes
happy” (Joplin).
“… the event moves through a transposition into a spiritual
experience. For one thing, the intent gazing
signals a meditative moment akin to spiritual activity: As he
drinks in nature's beauty; the poet attains an elevated state of
mind” (Joplin).
“Wordsworth was known to have suffered a sudden and deep
depression” (Liu).
Google Images
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Joplin, David. "Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a
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28 Apr. 2013.
Liu, Yu. "Crisis and Recovery: The Wordsworthian Poetics
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Rose, Phyllis. "Dances with Daffodils." The Atlantic
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