PHÂN TÍCH TÁC PHẨM ANALYZE I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD BY William Wordsworth

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Author’s Point of time Events

1. Life April 7, 1770

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• William Wordsworth was born in the LakeDistrict of Northern England

• he got a degree at St John’s College,Cambridge

• he went on a walking tour of France and theAlps; he was fascinated by the democraticideals of Revolutionary France

• he had a daughter, Caroline, from a Frencharistocratic woman, Caroline

• William inherited some money from afriend He also moved to Somerset with hissister Dorothy Dorothy was a poet, too, andwrote many diaries She was said to have agreat influence on William’s writing

William Wordsworth (1770 -1850)

1843 1850

• living with his sister Dorothy, with his friend,Coleridge, write Lyrical Ballads

• He got married with a childhood friend,Mary Hutchinson, and had five children

• He became Poet Laureate

• He became more conservative and went onwriting poems until his death

• Together, Wordsworth and Cole ridge (withinsights from Dorothy) produced Lyrical

• Ballads an important work in the EnglishRomantic movement The second editionwas published in 1800

• His Poems in Two Volumes were published,including "Ode: Intimations of Immortalityfrom Recollections of Early Childhood"

• His widow Mary published his lengthyautobiographical "poem to Coleridge" as ThePrelude several months after his death Then

it was recognized as his masterpiece

Wordsworth’s

Style

Man and nature

• Wordsworth is usually considered “the poet

of nature”, but his poems contain very littlenatural description

• He was more interested in the relationshipbetween the natural world and humanconsciousness

• He thought that man and nature areinseparable and that there are values innature It is from nature that man learns joyand love

• Wordsworth exploited the sensibility of theeye and ear to perceive the beauty of nature

• Wordsworth was interested in ordinary,everyday world and in the common life ofsimple, rustic people (which was full ofmoral values)

• He used sophisticated language everyday,and was against poetic diction

4. Death &

Legacy

April 23, 1850 • William Wordsworth died at his residence

when he was living in Mount Rydal

• A total of 523 sonnet poems by WilliamWordsworth, which make many scholarscompare him to William Shakespeare andJohn Milton

II - THE POEM

1. Plot Summary:

The poet was wandered through the hills and valleys, but he felt lonely and sorrow.Finally, he sees a crowd of golden daffodils packed tightly together, beside thelake, beneath the trees He is amazed by the beauty of the daffodils, dancing andfluttering in the breeze He gazed at the daffodils for a long time, but while he wasthere, he was unable to understand what he had gained when he sees the goldendaffodils Whenever he feels lonely, sorrow, depressed or feeling “pensive”, theflash of daffodils, dancing and fluttering in the breeze; makes him feels cherished

2. Structure of the poem:

• To talk about the structure of the poem, it is really very simple in form andlanguage The poem is composed of 4 stanzas, each with 6 lines, whichmakes the entire poem 24 lines long He used end rhyme

• Genre - Lyric poem

The poet wanted to rhyme every other line except for the last 2 He wanted

to rhyme to make it like a song (a chorus) He wanted to make it pleasant tothe ear

 Express feeling

 Have specific rhyming schemes : ABABCC, ends in a couplet

I wandered lonely as a cloud (A) That floats on high o'er vales and hills, (B) When all at once I saw a crowd, (A)

A host of golden daffodils; (B) Besides the lake, beneath the trees, (C) Fluttering and dancing in the breeze (C)

 Set to music or a beat

• Meter

 The meter of this poem is iambic tetrameter

1 2 3 4 The WAVES.|.be SIDE.|.them DANCED;.|.but THEY 1 2 3 4

Out-DID.|.the SPARK.|.ling WAVES.|.in GLEE:

— 1 2 3 4

A PO.|.et COULD.|.not BUT.|.be GAY 1 2 3 4

In SUCH.|.a JOC.|.undCOM.|.pa NY: .1 2 3 4

I GAZED—.|.and GAZED—.|.but LIT.|.tle THOUGHT 1 2 3 4

What WEALTH.|.the SHOW.|.to ME.|.had BROUGHT:

 It is a unstressed, stressed pattern

 Each line is four iambic feet, consisting of eight syllables

 It is a regular rhyme scheme throughout the poem except for afew deviations.

III - SETTING

The setting of the poem is very important, as it helps develop the theme of the relationship between man and nature The poet’s blissful state is not triggered by any event, but by being in nature.

1. Time:

The poem was based on an experience Wordsworth had with his sister, Dorothy, onApril 15, 1802 They went to their friends, the Clarksons, at Eusemere When they were came back to Grasmere, they saw a large of number of golden daffodils growing on the bank of a lake Ullswater in the Lake District of Northern England They both were astonished by the mesmeric beauty of these daffodils, which were fluttering and dancing with the light breeze

• The season in the poem is the Spring:

• the March of spring

• Season of flowers “Daffodils”

• This is on a sunny, breezy day

• “A host, of golden daffodils;” :Yellow daffodils are

considered golden under the sunlight

• “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” : Daffodils look

like dancing because of the breeze

2. Place:

• The first place is the Lake District of Northern England Wordsworth lived

in a part of England called the Lake District, filled with valleys, hills andlakes Is seemed possible that he is wandering through the Lake Valley,describing what he sees: “…o’re vales and hills”

• The second place is on (28)………… The ninth sentence will show you:

“For oft, when on my couch I lie”

“Lying on a couch in a thinking mood could easily be a way to describe a meditative state where the forces of the universe and our connection with the continual movement, and our powerful God.”

IV - POINT OF VIEW:

1. About the poem

The Lake District of Northern England.

This poem is written in first person It’s all told in the perspective of Wordsworth.Although he is reflecting back upon his memories, it is still written in first person.More interesting things about the poem….

• First one, this short poem is one of Wordsworth’s most famous works; it isinteresting the fact that there are two versions of the title

 The Daffodils

 I wandered lonely as a cloud

 I do not know if it is a choice of the poet himself or a conventional attitude

of critics who came after him But if I pause over one of the two versions, I may suppose that "I wandered lonely as a cloud" wants to point to the first personal pronoun "I", so the subject is the poet; the verb "wandered" is a perception and intellectual one, so the imagination of the poet could be the action of the poem; moreover, the adjective "lonely" indicates the solitude ofthe poet, what is more, the comparison "as a cloud" affirms his loneliness

• Last one, we know that the speaker is a poet because he tells us so in line 15

He speaks in the third person, but we know he’s talking about himself

“A poet could but be gay”

2. Speaker of the poem:

• The speaker is a (35) ……… who learns to find companions not inpeople but in nature

• The speaker of the poem seems to be a (36) ……… He thinks that he is

a cloud that is looking over dancing daffodils

• The speaker demonstrates how (37) ……… was to Romantics Thespeaker of the poem is (38) ………

V - CHARACTERIZATION

1. Cloud:

“I wander’d lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills”

The poem opened with the narrator

walking in the state of worldly

detachment, his wandering When he

thought lonely as a cloud, he described it

lightly and helped readers did not feel

sad when they were reading because

clouds usually travel in groups Also, the

cloud could be lonely because it floats

over a natural landscape with no people in it This is a romantic poet in a romanticemotion lead readers feel interested in the poem

2. Daffodils:

“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.”

When the poet was wandering in the forest and enjoying the fascinating naturearound him, he suddenly saw a crowd of golden daffodils by the lakeside Thedaffodils appeared so beautifully that he was compelled to gaze at these flowersplaying with pleasure in the wind

The author used personification to describe the beauty of daffodils Therefore, theybecame to have action and mind like people It made the poem as beautiful as alively picture

3. Stars:

In the 2nd poem, he continued describing daffodils:

“Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way”,

The figure of simile is subtly used “as the stars that shine” and “milky way” Thegolden daffodils were compared with the stars shining and twinkling on the galaxy

By that way the poet immortalized daffodils And this is in contrast to transitorynature of life examined in other works Daffodils seemed to become more beautifuland amazing in Wordsworth’s poem

The author could feel how many flowers were stretching as far as the eyes can seethough he had just come to that place:

“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.”

Like the Milky Way galaxy, the flowers are roughly concentrated in a line thatseems to stretch as far as the eye can see If readers have ever seen the Milky Way,they can know that the galaxy appears to be a band that has more stars and abrighter appearance than the night sky around it They can also imagine the sameeffect with the flowers It’s not as if there are no flowers outside the shore of thelake, but most are concentrated on the shore Particularly, the author reversed usualsyntax and hyperbole in: “Ten thousand saw I at a glance” That was capable ofemphasizing quantities of daffodils In the last of the 2nd poem, Wordsworth usedpersonification “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance” again

And in the next several lines the 3rd stanza:

“The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:”

Through characterized daffodils, we can find that nature has its own soul Theselight-hearted daffodils, weaving in unison with each other in the wind And theauthor compared them with waves Through the lake’s sparking waves dancedbeautifully, the daffodils seemed to do much better than them That reinforcedbeauty of daffodils William lifted him out of his soul and placed him in a higher

state in which the soul of nature and the soul of man were united into a singleharmony.

“They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.”

In the last stanza, it is revealed that this scene is only a memory of the pensivespeaker This is marked by a change from a narrative past tense to the present tense

as a conclusion to a sense of movement within the poem: passive to active motion,from sadness to blissfulness The memory of daffodils was etched in the author’smind and soul forever When the poet was feeling lonely, dull or depressed, hethought of daffodils and cheered up He desired to “dances with the daffodils”because he can feel the soul of nature and the soul of him were united into a singleharmony,

The above two lines weren’t composed by Wordsworth but by his wife, Mary.Wordsworth considered them the best lines of the whole poem They showed love

of daffodils To him, daffodils are friends who come to console and encourage him.And images of daffodils would never seem to fade in Wordsworth’s mind

 The title, “Daffodils” appears as a simple word that reminds us about thearrival the spring season, when the field is full of daffodils Daffodils areyellow flowers, with amazing shapes and charming fragrance But daffodils

in Wordsworth’s poem is also an artistic symbol They symbolize the natureand the joys and happiness of life

 The poem not only showed us natural beauty and the potential of naturetowards people but also showed the traditional family about nature’s love

VI – THEMES

The theme of the poem is mainly a collection of human emotions inspired bynature that we may have neglected due to our busy lives

1. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker is feeling lonely and sad

“I wandered lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o’er vales and hills”

He begins the poem by telling his loneliness This is the first theme that I want to say about “a feeling of loneliness”

He compares himself to a floating cloud over hills and valleys, precisely describedhow deep his loneliness was He didn’t say “walked around”, but he used the muchmore descriptive word “wandered” which literally means roaming around without

a purpose, like when you explore something, you feel purposeless and directionless

in general

However, is a cloud lonely? Clouds always travel in group; they are big, and faraway above the sky How could such big groups of cloud can be lonely? Or maybejust the cloud on the hills, the cloud in the speaker’s eyes was lonely as he seemed

to be loneliness on it

We feel that the speaker is seeking for the meaning of his life He walkedaimlessly, beside his sister but he still felt “lonely as a cloud” that could be affected

by our daily routines

So The speaker wanted to use “cloud” to show us the meaning of people’s life.This cloud represents the majority of human population that is so self-involvedwith their own insignificant lives that they will just do the same old thing and getbasically a monotonous existence without meaning or any worthwhile experiences

to shape their characters They are so far removed from their surroundings, “lonely

as a cloud, that floats high o’er vales and hills” that many people will never takethe time to slow down to enjoy the simple beauty of life Therefore, some peoplewill never know the glorious sense of peace that they are missing

This poem is relevant to me because it describes time of loneliness Sometimes wefeel that we are the only people on Earth, akin to a lonely cloud in the sky, until weencounter something beautiful which completely changes our mindset.

Suddenly,

“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.”

From the first stanza, we saw the landscape which includes the valleys and hills,the lake and the trees, the flowers beneath them and the breezy atmosphere thatcame from where he was born, England This beautiful landscape gave him a love

of nature

2. As for the theme, the poem is all about nature Nature has its beauty and influence to man Man shows his love of nature This is the relationship

between “Man and Nature”

In the second stanza, the flowers are continued as compared as the stars

“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.”

He compares the daffodils to the shining stars that sparkle in the Milky Way as thenumber of daffodils are near the river seem to be thousands in number It remindshim of the Milky Way, because there were so many bright flowers groupedtogether that they seemed to be never ending