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.

 

[lisarh]

There's heaps of stuff on the net, here are some sites you could look at:

1. http://www.eliteskills.com/c/6610

"With the use of first person he makes the poem seem more realistic as he uses imagery to make the reader visualize the picture he is painting. And by the constant referral to nature it is obvious that he is a thoughtful person who thinks life can be related to nature and that nature can lift a person spirit by just the sheer beauty of it. "



2. http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/wordsworth/section7.rhtml
"The characterization of the sudden occurrence of a memory--the daffodils "flash upon the inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude"--is psychologically acute, but the poem's main brilliance lies in the reverse personification of its early stanzas. The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud--"I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high...", and the daffodils are continually personified as human beings, dancing and "tossing their heads" in "a crowd, a host." This technique implies an inherent unity between man and nature, making it one of Wordsworth's most basic and effective methods for instilling in the reader the feeling the poet so often describes himself as experiencing. "


3. http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/IWandered.html

 

[gibbo153]

i did this for an assignment a year or two ago, its not on belonging obviously but its got technique analysis.

i think it must have been like year 10. so you should probably expand on my year 10 quality

ps. lol - your that girl complained that noone was doing your assignments for you right?