Daffodils by Wordsworth Analysis

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In "I wandered lonely as a Cloud," the daffodils are like little yellow people who keep the speaker company when he is feeling lonely. The happiness of the daffodils can always cheer him up, and he can tell that they are happy because they dance. Some variation of the word "dance" occurs in each of the four stanzas. Also, the speaker is taken aback by how many daffodils there are. We often think of daffodils as a flower that people plant in their gardens in the springtime, so it would be surprising to come upon thousands of them by an isolated lake. In lines 3-4 the daffodils are personified as a crowd of people. This personification continues throughout the poem as shown in line 6; Daffodils cannot actually "dance," so Wordsworth is ascribing to them an action that is associated with people. The writer says that the line of daffodils is "never-ending," but we know this can’t be strictly true: all good things come to an end. This is an example of hyperbole, or exaggeration. The personification of the daffodils becomes more specific. The "heads" of the daffodils are the part of the flower with the petals. It is larger and heavier than the stem, and so it bobs in a breeze. "I wandered lonely as a Cloud" has the remote atmosphere that is suggested by the title. The speaker feels like a cloud, distant and separated from the world below. But this distance becomes a good thing when he comes upon the daffodils, which are like little stars. It’s as if the problem at the beginning is that he hasn’t ascended high enough. The beginning of the poem makes a simile between the speaker’s wandering and the "lonely" distant movements of a single cloud. Clouds can’t be lonely, so we have another example of personification. The second stanza begins with a simile comparing the shape and number of the daffodils to a band of stars. You have to read into the poem a bit, but I think

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