"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is the first poem I ever read by William Wordsworth. I loved him immediately. I went on to write every essay I could about him and this poem. I was so taken by his use of nature imagery and the sweet title of the poem. Even just the main basis of the poem- you don't have to be lonely if you're alone- drew me towards Wordsworth.

"I Wandered..." is a lyric poem consisting of four stanzas in iambic tetrameter. Wordsworth wrote the poem for his beloved sister, whom he first discovered the daffodils that inspired the poem with. The poem contains much alliteration. It also personifies clouds by comparing them to a lonely human, as well as personifying daffodils by saying they are dancing.

It's undeniable that the most striking thing about Wordsworth's poem is the nature imagery. Not a stanza goes without it. Barely a line in the poem does not allude to nature in one way or another. Although the poem's title itself could sound rather like the poem was melancholy or sad, the words Wordsworth uses within makes it the complete opposite. The word "dance" is used throughout, brightening the poem. Other words generally associated with happiness- "glee", "bliss", "gay", and "jocund" are a few examples pulled from the final two stanzas.