I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a poem written the great representative poet of the early romanticism in England, William Wordsworth.

"Poetry", as the author defines in his "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." This definition of poetry can be illustrated from the poem.

It contains four six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of ababcc in each stanza. The rhyme and balance sentence are applied fully, polishing the poem musically, such as "Beside the lake, beneath the trees". What's more, the different forms of "dance" in every stanza, from verb to noun ("dancing","dance", "danced" and "dances"), suggest that various items of nature are in harmony with one another; so is nature with human beings. The writing tactics organize the whole poem in a powerful and beautiful way, making it tinkling and twinkling.

The images strongly reveal the writer's spontaneous overflow from his quiet emotions within. In the beginning, he compares himself as a cloud wandering lonely. Here, readers' heart can be easily captured by his imagination, for a cloud always keeps flowing and floating. He, staying high over vales and hills, "saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils." The comparison cheer him up between the group and himself alone, as the third paragraph says:"A poet could not but be gay/ In such a jocund company". The dancing image of daffodils, like shining, sparkling, and tossing, indicates a sense of unity and continuity in the natural elements of air, water and earth. Additionally, the "wealth in the show to me", is a kind of delight that the daffodils first brought to him. Later, whenever he lies on the couch with an unthinking mood or a seriously thoughtful meditation, the sweet memory will "flash upon the inward eye", filling his heart with joy. It helps in developing the creative power. Besides, The poet puts the elements of nature together in pairs: daffodils and wind (stanza 1); daffodils and stars (stanza 2); water and wind (stanza 3); nature and man are combined explicitly in stanza 4 when the speaker says that his heart dances with the daffodils. Those vivid and clear-cut descriptions all result from his true inner feelings.

William Wordsworth talks about the daffodils in order to tell us about him. In term of this, it's an intensely personal poem. It's about a single brief scene in a summer landscape. Yet the event has given permanent "wealth" because he can not only recall the visual scene of daffodils but also recapture the emotions through a retrospective imagination of the scene. He finds comfort for his loneliness in nature and then his heart dances.

To conclude, when a complex feeling on the mind overflows, a poetic composition in the hand begins.

[the poem]  I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud