I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth was an early leader of romanticism (a literary movement that celebrated nature and concentrated on human emotions) in English poetry and ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature. His words are soft, lyrical and beautiful. Modern style vintage poetry art with the background as a golden, textured paper look and a classic vintage font, printed on high quality, photographic paper with a soft luster finish. What you see here is a low resolution image created for my Etsy listing, your print will be high resolution, crisp, clear and beautiful. ***All print are UNFRAMED, what you see above is for display purposes only on Etsy. *** Please use the drop down menu to the right of the photo to select the size and your choice of print or canvas. PRINTS: I work with a photo lab who works only with professional photographers and has superb quality. Your print(s) will be sent to you professionally printed on premium quality, acid free, archival paper with a luster, artsy finish and carefully wrapped to ensure they reach you in perfect condition. CANVAS: My canvases are printed by a professional lab using premium archival inks. They are ready to hang as soon as you remove them from the box upon arrival. They are 1.25" deep, tightly wrapped on a solid frame, the corners are perfectly folded down tightly and neatly and the back is completely finished with a solid black backing board and staple free with a perfectly clean look. Each canvas comes with pre-installed hanging hardware, ready for you to place it on your wall. The canvas is coated with a satin finish that makes it scratch and fade resistant. Shipped to US ADDRESSES ONLY! FREE SHIPPING for all US orders on all photographic prints or canvases. Questions or requests? Use the "ask a question" above to the right of the price, I am happy to help! See more inspiring literacy prose and quotes here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShadetreePhotography?section_id=13007963&ref=shopsection_leftnav_2

I wandered lonely as a cloud

British Poet, William Wordsworth classic poem I Wandered Lonely Like A Cloud describes a walk the poet took with his sister. As the walked they came upon a field of daffodils. He found that later when he could summon the picture of that field of flowers and how they made him feel

So purdy. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When alla t 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 a 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. (Courtesy of The Poetry Foundation) What better way to start off the Romantic Period for the Literary Movement Challenge than with a poem by William Wordsworth. I am obviously not the first person to point this out, but isn't it cool how one of the great poets from the 19th century happened to have the last name of Wordsworth. Not that a last name influences one's vocation but I always wondered if his last name were something more common like Smith. Would William Smith have gone on to become one of the preeminent figures of the Romantic Age or would have have chosen an illustrious career in Blacksmithing instead? Anwyays, I digress. A few people have personally requested that I discuss more about poetry on this blog and while it may not be my area of expertise, hopefully I can offer some general reading techniques that have helped me to engage poetry on a more critical level, while at the same time, explain various poetic terminology along the way; taking a closer look at structure as as language, rhythm, meter, etc. that might help others who might be new to poetry and often find it difficult or intimidating. I am do not claim to be a literary critic like Stanley Fish or Cleanth Brooks with expert knowledge in poetry, capable of dissecting a poem to its bare essentials with such verve and brilliant precision. I am just a normal dude who likes to read and dabble in a bit of poetry of my own on occasion. My primary objective is to get others interested and excited about reading poetry. Therefore, it seems appropriate to start off a lovely and and relatively simple poem to see how one might pull off a close-reading. Alright, let's break it down. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a very famous poem but for those who may not be familiar with it, a bit of back-story. As I mentioned in the introductory paragraph, William Wordsworth was one of the forefathers of the Romantic era but how does one exactly define Romanticism? This is a difficult question to answer with any concrete explanation; thus, the focus should be on the possibilities of the genre. Some people might assume that this literary movement focuses on romance or 'love poetry' but that would be a misnomer. In a nutshell, the preceding Enlightenment period emphasized reason, science, order, constraint, a shared collective experience where rational thought supplanted superstition. Romanticism attempted to subvert these ideologies in favor of emphasizing the importance of self and personal experience; emotion/feeling, imagination, nature, freedom, inspiration--essentially, the rejection of rationalism. Obviously, having a basic understanding of the ideas and social/historical context of this or any other literary movement will be helpful to form an understanding of the poem but that is only one facet of critical analysis. Using this poem as an example, we can see how several of these ideas are emphasized by the poet. Pay attention to the way Wordsworth shows how experience grows in the imagination ("inward eye") along with the sympathetic relationship between man and nature which is drawn from this personal experience. The subjective self is clearly important in establishing the epistemological arguments of the poem where knowledge can be advanced by shaping the imagination through the engagement of the environment. Nature--or more specifically, the daffodils--are linked to the patterns and grandeur of the universe. The poet forms a connection to the spiritual harmony of creation. In essence, the whole poem--event and interpretation--presumably comes as a presentation of real experience, preceding the act of composition, making up the materials of poetry. The juxtaposition between the actual work of a poet and his personal experience may be a very delicate and tenuous one but sometimes there is a very close correlation between the events and the poetry. This happens to be the case with this particular poem. Wordsworth lived most of his life in the Lake District, a fairly large rural area in England which is well renowned for its lush forests, rolling hills, picturesque scenery and enchanting waters. He would often take long walks around his home, soaking in the beauty of nature, using it as an inspiration for his writing. One of the end results is this poem. There is evidence that such an instance took place, recorded in the diary of his sister Dorothy, who accompanied him on one of these walks where they encountered a field of daffodils along the shores of Ullswater. Of course, Wordsworth clearly does more than merely report the scene (1802) in the poem that was eventually completed in 1804. We have the impression that the poet had the experience and then reflected on its significance at a later date before entering upon composition to write the poem. However, is not thinking about the original experience also qualify as material as much as the sight of the daffodils? Scansions (looking at poetic structure) is another effective way to tackle a poem--examining the aesthetics of language, meter and rhyming patterns can very useful to derive meaning. Let's look at the general structure of this poem then: it is divided into four stanzas, contains a rhyming pattern of ababcc and the meter is iambic tetrameter with slight variations (a fancy way of saying that each line contains four "feet" of unstressed/stress beats like this: da Dum, da Dum, da Dum, da Dum). How is this useful you might ask? Well, for starters, the specific rhythmic movement and cadences of language often serve to emphasize meaning in poetry. I don't want to get into the complex semantics of language but think about some of your favorite pop songs. They operate under their own specific rhythmic structure, containing a catchy chorus; particular words and lines emphasized or repeated for dramatic effect. I am not trying to suggest that "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus should be considered poetry, resembles or is in some way influenced by Wordsworth; but rather, to merely illustrate that the aesthetics of modern pop songs share a lot in common with poetic structure and form that may not be readily apparent. The use of repetition ("dancing," "gazed") personification, simile, alliteration and anastrophe (the literary device of inversion) is worth keeping an eye on in this poem. The use of specific words such as "host" (Line 4) cater to the poem's religious implications--the speaker's spiritual transcendence derived from nature with the daffodils representing the holy communion or heavenly "hosts" as angels. Furthermore, there is a musicality to this particular poem not only in imagery (the "dancing of the daffodils") but in the actual lines themselves. Take a look at line 12: "Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." The transition from the sight of ten thousand daffodils in the previous line (hyperbole) to "tossing their heads in a sprightly dance" produces the sense of awe in the speaker. Indeed, would could interpret his experience as witnessing the sublime in nature. Upon a closer inspection of this line, the verb "tossing" should be read as a trochee (stress/un-stress) instead of an iamb. The stress on this word is important because it highlights the specific movement of the daffodils, creating a whimsical feel through the bobbing and swaying of daffodils. One should also consider the use of dancing throughout the poem. Each stanza echoes a particular dance whether it be formal or patterned: the dance of conceptual movements--past to present, solitude to joyfulness, free-floating to grounded, ethereal to celestial, fanciful outer landscape of nature to the inner landscape of the mind and most importantly, the dance of visual observation to the powers of the imagination. The poem is a document in form and content; the speaker's intellectual movement from an observer to participant in a dance, revealing in the process, the harmonizing capacities of the imagination.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth was an early leader of romanticism (a literary movement that celebrated nature and concentrated on human emotions) in English poetry and ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature. His words are soft, lyrical and beautiful. Modern style vintage poetry art with the background as a golden, textured paper look and a classic vintage font, printed on high quality, photographic paper with a soft luster finish. What you see here is a low resolution image created for my Etsy listing, your print will be high resolution, crisp, clear and beautiful. ***All print are UNFRAMED, what you see above is for display purposes only on Etsy. *** Please use the drop down menu to the right of the photo to select the size and your choice of print or canvas. PRINTS: I work with a photo lab who works only with professional photographers and has superb quality. Your print(s) will be sent to you professionally printed on premium quality, acid free, archival paper with a luster, artsy finish and carefully wrapped to ensure they reach you in perfect condition. CANVAS: My canvases are printed by a professional lab using premium archival inks. They are ready to hang as soon as you remove them from the box upon arrival. They are 1.25" deep, tightly wrapped on a solid frame, the corners are perfectly folded down tightly and neatly and the back is completely finished with a solid black backing board and staple free with a perfectly clean look. Each canvas comes with pre-installed hanging hardware, ready for you to place it on your wall. The canvas is coated with a satin finish that makes it scratch and fade resistant. Shipped to US ADDRESSES ONLY! FREE SHIPPING for all US orders on all photographic prints or canvases. Questions or requests? Use the "ask a question" above to the right of the price, I am happy to help! See more inspiring literacy prose and quotes here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShadetreePhotography?section_id=13007963&ref=shopsection_leftnav_2

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I wandered lonely as a cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth

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Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades!

Short Questions with Answers (I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth)

A person finds great pleasure in seeing a field of daffodils. Read poems for kids, free short stories and children's literature for free online at Storyberries.

This is an activity menu that gives students six different options for mini-projects to complete after reading "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth. The options include: -Title Swap: follow instructions to write 5 new titles for the poem -Determine Theme: follow the steps to write a theme statement -Tone Collage: create a collage that illustrates the tone of the poem -Sing Song: choose 3 songs and explain how they relate to the poem -Analyze Devices: discuss literary and sound devices in the poem and how they affect the meaning -Paraphrase: rewrite the poem in your own words Check out other Project Menus.

I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud – William Wordsworth

This book focuses on the choice of certain key words to be found in Macbeth, Richard III, "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning 9781365896569 1365896560 224 BOOK Education http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xJYkDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en | Author: Julian Scutts | Publisher: Lulu.Com | Publication Date: Apr 16, 2017 | Number of Pages: 222 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1365896560 | ISBN-13: 9781365896569

this is a worksheet based on one of the most famous poems of the british literature, I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth, and It contains a set of comprehension questions, a gap-fill exercise and a vocabulary matching exercise. It is perfect to teach to your students a lot of new vocabulary, specially new verbs and adjectives. - ESL worksheets

William Wordsworth was an immensely influential English poet. He is best known for his introspective blank verse and role in the Romantic literary movement.

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils") is a poem by William Wordsworth that is known for its celebration of the beauty of...

So purdy. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When alla t once I saw a crowd, A host, of golde...