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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” was written by William Wordsworth, the representative poet of the early romanticism. As a great poet of nature, William Wordsworth was the first to find words for the most elementary sensations of man face to face with natural phenomena. These sensations are universal and old but, once expressed in his poetry, become charmingly beautiful and new. This poem implies that the relation between the poem and nature is one of unity and that they can be one In this poem, the poet expresses his emotions by providing the sense impressions he has through imagery. He describes a picture so vividly that it appeals richly to our senses and to our imagination. The daffodils become much more than mere flowers.? They are a symbol of natural beauty and, more importantly, symbolize living a life as rich in experience and sensation as would make a life worth living. The four stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme of ababcc. Each line is metered in iambic tetrameter. He achieves musical quality by the management of alliteration (e.g. “That floats on high o’er vales and hills” in line 2 and “Beside the lake, beneath the trees” in line 5) and assonance (e.g. “beneath the trees in line 5” and “ They stretched in never-ending line” in line 9) and consonance (e.g. “ vales and hills” in line 2 ). Wordsworth used a lot of rhetoric to express his feeling in the poem. (e.g. in line 1, the poet makes a comparison between “I wandered lonely” and “a cloud” by the use of simile, thus convey to us his lonely mood with the image of “cloud”. He goes further to impress us with the image of countless daffodils with a hyperbole in line 9 “They stretched in never-ending line”. Besides, he used personification to endow natural things with human being’s characters. e.g. “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance” “The waves beside them danced”) therefore, as we read the poem, we become aware of the poet’s deep love toward nature th