Sprightly dance means lively and jubilant dance. The daffodils were Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The word head here refers to the top flower part of the plant. The phrase Ten thousand saw I at a glance is a hyperbole that means the poet saw a large number of daffodils which he could not count. The poet says that the daffodils stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay. The bay here refers to the lake.Īccording to the poet, the daffodils which covered the shore of the lake seemed to be unending like the stars in the sky and like them (the stars of Milkyway), they were too twinkling. The second stanza begins with the comparison between daffodils along the lake and stars in the Milkyway. Stanza 2 Continuous as the stars that shine Hence this is the example of juxtaposition in I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud. In a way, the poet imagines as if the daffodils possess the qualities of both thus of the world and the meta world. Again the poet personifies the daffodils by showing them as flapping (wings of birds or in imaginations that of angels) and dancing (like humans) in the moving breeze. The daffodils seem to be fluttering and dancing in the breeze. along with the shores of the lake and below the trees because they are small. According to the poet, he sees a large number of daffodils beside the lake, beneath the treesi.e. The poet calls daffodils golden rather than yellow in order to express their majesty and beauty. Hence the poet uses personification and attributes the human qualities to daffodils. While roaming in the valley he suddenly sees a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils. The words crowd and host mean a large number of people. Unlike the clouds that are full of rain and thus move in purpose, this fragment has no particular direction to move and just roams around above the valley. Usually, the clouds are not alone, but here the poet probably refers to a fragment of the cloud that moves among the hills in the valley. He was all alone like a cloud that floats high in the valley. In the first stanza, the poet says that he was wandering lonely as a Cloud that floats on high o’er vales and Hills. The phrase refers to him being roaming around without any purpose. That floats on high o'er vales and hills, Poem Stanza 1 I wandered lonely as a cloud The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABABCC and the main theme is the beauty of nature. The poem consists of four stanzas having six lines each. The poet narrates a small incident in which he got an opportunity to see a huge number of daffodils in a valley. The lyric poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud or Daffodils by William Wordsworth is considered to be one of his best poems in modern times.
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