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Poem Analysis

The document analyzes William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in three sentences: It discusses the poem's form, including its use of iambic tetrameter and an ABBA rhyme scheme, as well as its literary devices such as similes, hyperbole, and personification that contribute to the overall tone of wonder and lifted spirits as the speaker observes a field of daffodils. The analysis suggests these formal elements and language techniques work together to convey the speaker's transformation from melancholy observer to one whose emotions reflect the buoyancy and beauty of the natural scene.

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Poem Analysis

The document analyzes William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in three sentences: It discusses the poem's form, including its use of iambic tetrameter and an ABBA rhyme scheme, as well as its literary devices such as similes, hyperbole, and personification that contribute to the overall tone of wonder and lifted spirits as the speaker observes a field of daffodils. The analysis suggests these formal elements and language techniques work together to convey the speaker's transformation from melancholy observer to one whose emotions reflect the buoyancy and beauty of the natural scene.

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Wordsworth take a minute to just pause

this video and read the poem over on


your own so I've assumed that you've
paused this video and we're going to
jump right in and analyze four essential
elements of this poem and those are form
devices tone and meaning so if we were
to analyze the form of this poem we
could see that the poem is written in
four stanzas or four chunks of text and
it's also written in iambic tetrameter
which sounds really scary but actually
it's just a pattern of syllables that
poets sometimes use to give their pieces
a bit more structure so fYI one I am is
one unstressed syllable plus one
stressed syllable and I am a tetrameter
means that there are four Iams in each
line of the poem when looking at the
first line of the poem I wandered lonely
as a cloud you can see that the text
that is bolded and underlined shows
those stressed syllables while the plain
text is just the unstressed syllables so
if I were to read this exaggerating the
stressed syllables it would sound like
this I wandered lonely as a cloud it
sounds kind of silly but it shows that
there are four I am Zin each line of the
poem but why is this important I am back
to trauma tur means that the poem sounds
more harmonious and pleasing to the ear
one Wordsworth uses the structure when
analyzing form we also have to look at
rhyme scheme so if we look at the last
word of each line in the poem we can see
that the rhyme scheme pattern is a b a b
c c that also shows that the last two
lines of each stanza form a couplet so
now let's analyze the literary devices
in the poem but it's not enough to just
identify the devices we have to figure
out the effect that they
have on the column itself so the first
thing that sticks out to me is that
there's a simile in the first line the
speaker compares himself to a cloud and
that shows that there's a slight sad
melancholy tone in the beginning the
speaker seems like a lone observer who's
just floating around and watching the
world passively another simile occurs
when the speaker compared to the
daffodils to the stars that shine and
twinkle on the Milky Way and this is
really vivid imagery that shows the
imagination of the speaker it also
indicates that nature seems to possess a
perfect pristine pattern he's comparing
the star the constellation of the stars
to this perfect pattern of daffodils
another device that we can see is the
hyperbole when the speaker states that
he sees 10,000 daffodils in a
never-ending line so that's not actually
true the daffodils are not actually
never-ending but it contributes to the
overall effect that this is a wide
expanse of daffodils another important
device is personification so when the
speaker gives human traits to inanimate
objects that's really significant
because it's showing that man and nature
aren't as far apart as they seem
I've highlighted some examples of
personification in this poem we can see
that the daffodils are dancing and
fluttering which makes them seem really
jovial and excited they're also tossing
their heads in a sprightly dance while
the waves are dancing beside them also
reflecting the happiness of the
daffodils and in the end the speaker's
heart actually dances with the daffodils
that shows that the speaker's own
emotions reflect the beauty and the
buoyancy of the scene around him now
let's take a look at tone which is just
the attitude of the speaker we can see
that the speakers in all of the
daffodils because they seem to lift his
spirits he's really fascinated by the
beauty of the scene and he's also very
fanciful which is another
for imaginative we can also see that the
speaker transforms throughout the course

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