Lit Quotes - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth

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“I wandered lonely as a cloud” - personification

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“A host, of golden daffodils” - personification (company in nature) biblical discourse

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“Beside the lake, beneath the trees'“ - caesura

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“Fluttering and dancing in the breeze” - dactyl (waltz like) reflecting dancing of soul when in nature

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“What wealth the show to me had brought” - the show uses symbolism for beauty and power of nature - feeling of nature same as feeling of wealth

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“A poet could not but be gay” - jocund tone - joy brought, fulfilment elicited - especially poets of the romantic era due to beliefs

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“In vacant and in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye” - nostalgia when in need of healing - transcendentalist - nature like God

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‘Which is the bliss of solitude” - following line - paradox of ‘bliss’ and ‘solitude’ - never truly alone in nature - change in mood from beginning of poem where lonely to end where he is content in his solitude