++I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by W. WORDSWORTH++

=ANALYSIS=

I wandered lonely as a cloud is a famous poem written by William Wordsworth. This poem became one of his loveliest poems. Besides, this poem is all about the beauty of nature and it shows the strong emotion of the persona. Here, the memory daffodil is impressed in the persona’s mind and soul. He expressed what he feels trough this poem as a human nature where people always have a tendency to share their feeling and experience with others. We want to make the others see the same like we had seen before. “A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company:”

In this poem, the persona described ‘daffodils’ as a great and beautiful flower. Besides, he feels that whenever he's feeling lonely, dull or depressed, he thinks of the daffodils, and he will cheers up. Even though there is a moment in his life where he feels nothing to think about but the daffodils always make his life happier. “Which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils”. In this poem, Wordsworth had compared the cloud which is aimlessly with the sense of lonely. Moreover, the daffodils are personified as a human being, “waves beside them danced…”. “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance”.

In short, this poem shows the unity between man and nature, making it one of Wordsworth's most memorable poems.


=THEME =

The themes of this poem is about lonely and homesickness. This is what Wiliam Worthsword mention in the poem: Being from the North of England ( Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven), I spent many happy hours in the Lake District and after 40 years still get homesick for it. I am very grateful to the teacher who made me learn by heart this We often go through life as if we were unconscious of what is going on. I am grateful to the teacher who made me learn by heart this beautiful poem. I even have some fun with it with my children, as such spring whatever I see the first daffodils. I immediately start up with, “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, accompanied by groans from the family. I have always made it a point to plant daffodils where ever I’ve lived, so I hope others have enjoyed them also. From this poem, we know that the themes is about the loneliness.

Besides that, we know that the simply happiness is come from live our lives and the simply beauty that nature gives us daily.

=MORAL VALUE=

This poem I wandered lonely as a cloud is about loneliness and home sickness. It describe how someone feel when in the foreign place. The moral values of these poems is someone should facing the life challenge bravely. Although we are not familiar with the foreign place, we cant giving up, and should bravely facing the challenging. In the poems, Wiliam Wordsworth describe a situation of foreign place, and this metaphor with his home sickness. When someone leave their hometown and having a life in foreign place, we have to facing all the life challenge individuality, nobody can help you, thus, we have to facing the life challenging bravely.
Besides that, the other moral values of the poems is depend on oneself. Like what have already mention in above, people have to learn independent. We have to do all the works by ourselves, cant depend to others people. In the foreign place, nobody can help us, we have to do all the works by ourselves, and it will let people more mature than others.
I wandered lonely as a cloud giving us a positive information, life is full of changing, we have to facing life by using our positive point of view. Although life is difficult, we also have to facing it, because trouble is also a part of life.