- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - By, William Wadsworth - How author uses figurative language...

People can be very imaginative and picture the wildest scenes in their heads. A poem that supports this is "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth. This poem is written from the first person view of the person lying on a couch in the house, using a pleasant and calming tone. The person pictures two main scenes: (1) nature with trees, daffodils, and hills, and (2) space with stars and the Milky Way. William Wordsworth uses figurative language such as personification through out the whole poem to bring the nouns to life. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" shows how people can doze off easily have no limits to how far their imagination can go.

The poet starts off with "I wandered lonely as a cloud," showing that the narrator is dozing off. This shows how easily one's mind can become off track and dream about something else that is more interesting to the person.

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Then the poet writes that the cloud "floats on high o'er vales and hills" giving the narrator a view of nature from above. The narrator sees many things such as "...a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils, beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze." The first stanza itself shows that there are no limits to imagination and how easily one can doze off into dreamland.

To add on to the imagination, the poet uses figurative language to help the poem to be more exciting and to give the poem life. For example, "golden daffodils" or "sprightly dance" are some figurative language that is in the poem. One very good example of a personification that is used in the poem is "And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils," which...