I WANDERED lonely as a cloud

I WANDERED lonely as a cloud

          That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

          When all at once I saw a crowd,

          A host, of golden daffodils;

          Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

          Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

          Continuous as the stars that shine

          And twinkle on the milky way,

          They stretched in never-ending line

          Along the margin of a bay:                                  10

          Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

          Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

          The waves beside them danced; but they

          Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

          A poet could not but be gay,

          In such a jocund company:

          I gazed--and gazed--but little thought

          What wealth the show to me had brought:

          For oft, when on my couch I lie

          In vacant or in pensive mood,                               20

          They flash upon that inward eye

          Which is the bliss of solitude;

          And then my heart with pleasure fills,

          And dances with the daffodils.

                                         

In the first line of the poem Wordsworth uses a simile to compare his wandering to that of a cloud. Later on in the stanza he write the there are daffodils “fluttering and dancing in the wind” which helps create a vivid image in the mind of the reader. In the first two lines of the second stanza the daffodils are like the stars of the Milky Way in how they “shine and twinkle”, this is a great comparison because the Milky Way is filled with almost count less stars and helps create a feel for how massive the field of daffodils is. As the stanza continues it reads “Ten thousand saw I at a glance” which again repeats the idea of how many daffodils are present. The third portion of the poem reminds the reader the of the location of the field being by a lake shore reaffirming part of the first stanza. The line  “A poet could not but be gay” helps set the tone of the poem as a pleasant and enjoyable one. The last stanza of the poem talks about how Wordsworth often lies on his couch in poor mood then “They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils”, this ending of the poem is referring to his mood being lifted by him recalling the daffodils in his mind.