Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
I came across with Wordsworth’s poetry in 2000 through “The Daffodils”. I only read the poem at that time- just for school. In the weekends, I went over “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and realized its other name is Daffodils. I said to myself “What a wonderful world!” and the title took me to Baudelaire’s
“-J’aime les nuages… les nuages qui passent… là-bas… là-bas… les merveilleux nuages!”
Flower of Support
I really like Wordsworth’s choice of words with highly rich imaginary. When someone wanders as a solitary cloud, they can float to as far as they want and see as much as they desire through imagination. I start wandering as a lonely cloud and happen upon daffodils whispering with gentle breeze on the avenue of life. The breeze brings the soft, gentle music and asks the daffodils to dance. The daffodils start dancing and they shine like the stars in infinity leading to the never-ending story. This astonishing scene makes our heart ever-green and sparkling fresh. We get so blessed with purity, and we lean to nature to begin dancing with daffodils.
I am deeply moved after reading this beautiful but simple poem. It shows how much and how easily the Nature can inspire someone by her wealth and beauty. It’s like we start travelling around the world and all on sudden, we find the most desired thing in our life and realize this is what we have been longing for. Lovers find their beloved one, poets gather their words, wanderers reach their destiny, and lives get new definitions. Then all the hearts fill with pleasure and the Nature sends a slumber to seal their souls like the dancing daffodils.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
The daffodils stop dancing when a slumber of reality strikes them hard. We had no fear as nature was taking care of us. Now she has no motion, that is, there is no breeze to make the daffodils dance with pleasure. The world has been filled with hatred and cruelty, lives are falling in our daily life. The Nature is still there waiting for her children to wake up and filled their heart with love again.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. – W. Wordsworth
I really liked your comment on “Moments with Wordsworth and daffodils”. I think you did a great job expressing Wordsworth’s reason for writing this poem. The statement, “For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. – W. Wordsworth” shows how wordsworth adored nature and drew harmony from it. His message was for everyone to look at nature, to see its natural beauty and to look pass its physical form. He wanted humanity to find peace in this world of destruction.
I also liked your analysis of his poem. They way it lured you into thinking of traveling. How you promoted the idea of nature and how wandering lonely as a cloud was good because it meant you were unlimited. I didn’t think about it in that way and now that I am I see the poem in a new sight. In class, we spoke about the poem refering to loneliness and even though he did find happiness through nature, he ended lonely and sad. I assumed he was sad because he realized once again he was alone but maybe he was sad because not many can look at nature and rekindle that peace and happiness like him, instead they see nothing and abuse it.
Thank you Rachel. I tried to tell a story by doing a transition between “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “A slumber did my spirit seal”. I am glad that you like it.
I like you analysis and I completely agree with you in regards to the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. Like you, I also liked the choice of word and the use of imagery and personification throughout the whole poem. Like you said, in the first stanza, the poet describes that he was “lonely as a crowd” until he was a “crowd” of daffodils that were “beside the lake, beneath the tree”. With the use of this words, I can create a picture of this moment in my mind, which I think makes it easier for the reader to understand and can have a feeling of what the poet feels. Not only does the poet achieve this through imagery but also with the use of personification. He says that the daffodils were fluttering and dancing in the breeze, which makes the reader again see and feel that moment. Not only were the daffodils moving, but they were dancing. Usually when a person dances, the person is happy and enjoying the moment and this is what the daffodils portrait.
Also, the personification and imagery used, sort of create music to the poem. For instance, in the first stanza I can hear the low, sad tone in lines 1-2. Then the tone increases to a happier one, and so does the mood. All of this is true for every stanza in this poem.
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