At the beginning the daffodils are described as a “crowd” (3), that is as a disorganized accumulation however, the lyric I immediately corrects its first impression by admitting that the flowers are rather growing in a “host” (4). The unexpectedness is further emphasized by an inversion moving the reader's attention towards this first expression. But then, without having expected it (“all at once”, 3), the lyric I awakens from its reverie because it sees “golden daffodils” (4). The observer remains passive, just watching a peaceful landscape while drifting aimlessly over it. It is remote from the earth, thus seemingly detached and perceiving its surroundings from above, then looking down on “vales and hills” (2). The lyric I opens the poem by comparing itself to a lonely cloud, walking around without any explicitly mentioned purpose or destination.
The poem consists of 24- line iambic tetrameter verses which are further organized into four sestets, with a quatrain underlying the rhyme scheme of an alternate rhyme, and a rhyming couplet. Yet this impression has such a deep and intensive effect on the observer that the latter always remembers this extraordinary experience when he or she is “n vacant or in pensive mood” (20). William Wordsworth's poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” deals with the apparently simple encounter of the lyric I with many daffodils growing in a beautiful landscape and surpassing everything in their elegance and pulchritude. “The subject of these Stanzas is rather an elementary feeling and simple impression (approaching to the nature of an ocular spectrum) upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it.” Analysis of the poems 1.1 Analysis of “I wandered lonely as a cloud” Eventually, facing the similarities and differences, there will be a conclusion about a reader's role in the interpretative process of these two poems, and literary works in general. After having shown the poems' inner form and and content, I will provide a comparative analysis with regard to several aspects such as author and period, circumstances under which the poems came into being, or form and content. I will begin with “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and investigate the stylistic devices of every stanza, relate them to the latter as a whole, and finally figure out their functions to show how they support my argumentations concerning their ramification.Īs far as Bukowski's “8 count” is concerned, I will continue with the same mode of procedure, showing the formal and stylistic devices as well as how the poem is made up and in what way its composition contributes to the created effect. Mary Moorman 1971, 109.This term paper will analyse and confront the poems by William Wordsworth and Charles Bukowski. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, 2nd ed., ed. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. This wind blew directly over the lake to them.
I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. We fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. “When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side. In 1802, two years before the poem was written, Dorothy recorded this in her journal of 15 April 1802: This immortal little poem, first published in 1807, owes a lot to William’s sister Dorothy Wordsworth. The Romantics were also Pantheists, that is they believed that God was manifested in nature. It should be noted that life in the late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King George III, known - ironically given the terrible social conditions of the time - as the Romantic Era. This was a subject of particular interest to Wordsworth. A tenet of Romantic poetry is its focus on nature and man’s insignificance in comparison to the natural world. Wordsworth was one of the ‘big six’ Romantic Poets (Shelley, Keats, Coleridge and Byron.
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