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By: Dominic Piedmont. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth. Background on Wordsworth. 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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”William Wordsworth
By: Dominic Piedmont
Background on Wordsworth 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
ExplicationWho is the speaker ?
What era was it written in?
Themes of the poem.
Personal Interpretation
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”
Literary Terms: 1st stanza 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.
Literary Terms: 1st stanza 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.
Literary Terms: 1st stanza 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
Literary Terms: 1st stanza 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
Enjambment
Literary Terms: 1st stanza 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
Enjambment
Personification
Literary Terms: 2nd stanza
Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End Stopped Line
Literary Terms: 2nd stanza
Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End Stopped Line
Couplet
Literary Terms: 2nd stanza
Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End Stopped Line
Couplet
Enjambment
Literary Terms: 2nd stanza
Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. End Stopped Line
Couplet
Enjambment
Literary Terms: 3rd Stanza The waves beside them danced; but
theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed--and gazed--but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:
Literary Terms: 3rd Stanza The waves beside them danced; but
theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed--and gazed--but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:
Caesura
Literary Terms: 3rd Stanza The waves beside them danced; but
theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed--and gazed--but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:
Caesura
Personification
Literary Terms: 4th Stanza For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.
Literary Terms: 4th Stanza For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude; ParadoxAnd then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.
Critical analysis “ “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).
Work Cited Google Images Brennan, Matthew C. "Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as
A Cloud." The Explicator 57.3 (1999): 140-3. ProQuest. Web. 28 Apr. 2013.
Joplin, David. "Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." The Explicator 56.2 (1998): 67-70. ProQuest. Web. 28 Apr. 2013.
Liu, Yu. "Crisis and Recovery: The Wordsworthian Poetics and Politics." Papers on Language & Literature 39.1 (2000): 19+. Literature Resources. Web. 28 Apr. 2013.
Rose, Phyllis. "Dances with Daffodils." The Atlantic Monthly 2002: 49-51. ProQuest. Web. 28 Apr. 2013 .
"William Wordsworth." - Poets.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2013. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/296>.