Thursday, July 24, 2008

I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud

The title of the poem itself is a similie. This poem is written in iambic tetrameter and incorporates quatrains followed by end-rhyming couplets. The speaker is in a dream-like state about nature. He is thinking of how beautiful the bed of dancing daffodils are. Personification is used to describe the daffodils; "Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." This poem is a romanticism because it is about nature and the personal experience the speaker has shared with it. Repetition of the word "dance" is used throughout this poem; this creates a cheerful and vivid picture in the reader's mind. The theme of this poem is that our souls are truly content when they are in nature.

1 comment:

debwrite said...

Wordsworth was indeed a Romantic era poet, and he absolutely loved nature.
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