Analysis and comments on I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth
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Comment 15 of 35, added on September 26th, 2005 at 9:02 AM.
i had to analyze this poem for a lacture and you all gave a great help!thanks a lot!!
Gréta from Hungary
Comment 14 of 35, added on September 4th, 2005 at 6:03 AM.
Hi,
i just read some of your comments and I am really amased at what thoughts are standing behind this little poem! I am still going to school and I have to interpret this piece of literature and your comments gave me an idea what Wordsworth wanted to say in this little poem. It is not about being alone, but about the beauty of nature and how something so "little" given by nature can inspre one.
Jazzman02 from Germany
Comment 13 of 35, added on September 3rd, 2005 at 2:14 AM.
the Romantic poets usually wrote nature poetry, meaning they would emphasise the beauty of their surroundings and how it effects them. Wordsworth is no exception though i think that he focused on the unity of man and nature. he does this by using a simile 'i wander'd lonely as a cloud' (1st line) this describes him as something from nature (the cloud). later on he goes on to describe the daffodils through the use of personification e.g. 'fluttering and dancing in the breeze' (6th line). basically he is linking nature and man to one another...therefore emphasising the unity between man and nature...only a theory...
have fun with the poem
mary-kate from Australia
Comment 12 of 35, added on June 6th, 2005 at 4:15 AM.
This poem is very wonderful!!My Engish sir adores it as well, Hope anyone who reads this poem will also enjoy it just the way we did!!
BYE!
PJ & AJ from Greece
Comment 11 of 35, added on June 5th, 2005 at 5:18 PM.
Obviously literature of this nature can be taken to whatever inventive extremes you like, but what one must always bear in mind when reading wordsworth, is that he was one of the first writers of the English Romantic era, he merely wrote about the simple beauty of his surroundings. It certainly isnt about how he was alone, when he composed the piece, he had just returned from a walk with his most beloved sister, and they noticed a immense number of daffodils, which demonstrates that inspiration can be drawn from the smallest of sources.
J. Codlin from United Kingdom
Comment 10 of 35, added on April 1st, 2005 at 7:31 PM.
I think that the poem is about how he was alone (as it says in the title and in the first line of the poem that he was lonely) and then he goes and describes how daffodils made him feel not so lonely anymore. He writes that when he was on his couch in solitude, which is when he is alone, his heart fills with the pleasures of the daffodils, because he remembers the ten thousand daffodils he described earlier in the poem. He is such an inspiring poet, and can take such a simple sentence about how lonely you can be, but then how something so little as a flower can change your mood in an entirely different way.
Mary L. from United States
Comment 9 of 35, added on March 3rd, 2005 at 6:28 PM.
The poem strikes me as one that is much like Frost's "The Road Not Taken". It's not in the present time, which seems quite important to me. And like Frost's poem, I think some of the meaning is either ignored or stretched too far. To go so far as to compare the daffodils to all the people he's met, putting on a show like the players of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern seems to take the poem into almost existentialism, especially compared with Narcissus. Nor do I think that the flowers are calming, because they are "a host". I had read somewhere that Wordsworth had shared the same moment with his sister in writing, so it was, in truth, a very important moment for him to reflect upon.
I think that sometimes the speaker's actual speech in a poem is disregarded as readers skip to the meaning of it. Like in Eliot's "Prufrock", it's necessary to understand that it's the speaker speaking to us. Instead of picking apart the glee and gaiety of the spritely flowers, I think the speaker is trying to say to us to regard beauty of its sort in a bigger view. He saw this mass of flowers as "a host", not individual flowers, and was more than enthused-- overpowered by it. There is no one point to the poem but to accept beauty for what it is-- let beauty as a whole impress you, and don't pick it apart for understanding. And I think to attach a heavy meaning to the flowers would burden their urgent glory. Basically, Wordsworth meant that you must find a moment of holistic beauty for its own sake, not yours, and keep it for all the times when analysis of a tired life encumbers your spirit.
Anastasia from United States
Comment 8 of 35, added on February 7th, 2005 at 12:54 PM.
i have two strong connections to this poem; first, i am a lyrical poet of absolutely no stature, and second, daffs are my favorite flower. i think wordsworth ( can that possibly be the name of a poet? )did what i often did. i think he saw something so beautiful that he just had to tell us about it; that's all, no deeper meaning than beauty.poets do that sort of thing. his turned out to be timeless--mine lies moulding in a drawer.
dino almond from United States
Comment 7 of 35, added on February 6th, 2005 at 5:41 PM.
He describes a scene he encountered about two years prior to writing this poem. His fantastical account gives insight into the way he views the world around him. These daffodils are not the pretty little things that decorate the shoreline, he makes them into an army, a mob that is crazed and wild with competition (with the lake). This is like the way he sees those aound him. Even the simplist things, like flowers, can be putting on a show. Think about it.
CFranke from United States
Comment 6 of 35, added on February 1st, 2005 at 10:45 PM.
I think this poem is about William Wordsworth's surroundings and what he did was write what he saw.
Smart and Hot from Canada
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i had to analyze this poem for a lacture and you all gave a great help!thanks a lot!!
Gréta from Hungary