"I Wandered Lonley as a Cloud"

          One of the most famous poems by William Wordsworth is “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”.  A simple poem filled with nature and joy, just the way Wordsworth liked it.  In the first stanza of the poem he tells of how he wandered around alone in the hills and came across a huge field of daffodils.   He paints a picture in the reader’s mind of the daffodils next to a lake “dancing in the breeze”.  The daffodils are described in his usual naturalistic way in the second stanza.  He sees thousands of flowers and relates the amount to the stars in the Milky Way to show an image through his writing of how many daffodils there were dancing next to the lake.  He uses personification to make the flowers seem more alive as they dance in the wind.  He compares the flowers to the lake by saying that even though the flowers move at the same time as the waves, the beauty of the flowers outshines the beauty of the lake.  The third stanza shows his undeniable joy as he stares at the daffodils.  While he is staring at the field of flowers he doesn’t think much of the effect it will have on him in the future, he lives in the moment of happiness.  In the fourth stanza he realizes that the image of the daffodils comes back to him whenever he is alone or sad.  The image of the daffodils swaying in the breeze by the lake in the hills brings him joy once again.  William Wordsworth is known for his light and joyful poems about nature and the happiness it can bring into one’s life.  This poem is especially famous for its simplistic approach to nature and the feelings it can bring to the reader.  From his descriptive style it is easy to picture the scene at which he is at and feel what the nature around him has to offer.  This poem would have to be one of my favorites of all of the William Wordsworth poems because it’s simple and calming yet the words are so powerful.