i wandered as a lonely cloud..HELP (1 Viewer)

[lauraa1]

need help on analysis and techniques?
any ideas/notes feel free
will be greatly appreciated.
its for a speech in 3 days
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here is the poem:
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:
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,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.

 

[Clifford]

Is this for belonging or Romanticism?

Hmm, I for belonging you could talk about the link between man and nature, and that despite our human lonliness, we can always belong to nature? You could speak of the repetition of "and" in the final lines to demonstrate how moving from belonging to humans to belonging to nature is a process...

Or you could say that our isolation can be remedied by witnessing unity and belonging in something else, i.e the daffodils. You could speak about their personification in "tossing their heads", which could demonstrate the inherent need of all things to belonging, and that this thus makes nature more humanlike?

You could even speak of the rythme as symbolic of the daffodils belonging and the sense of unity and order this creates.... "Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze"

All the same, this doesnt seem very appropriate for belonging. Cool poem though Wordsworth!

Hope that wasnt completly wasteful...

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