In her journal for April 15, 1804, she wrote: “I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing.” Wordsworth waited two years to write the poem about that day, and in “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” he reimagines it according to his poetic needs. We know from his sister Dorothy’s journals that they were together when they saw the daffodils the poem celebrates. The extent to which Wordsworth altered versions of events that were the origins of his poems should be noted here. Wordsworth was particularly good at interweaving several different temporal perspectives into a single poem, and since time and the changes it produces formed Wordsworth’s central poetic preoccupation, his interweaving in this poem is of central importance. Like many of Wordsworth’s shorter poems, it is far more complex than it seems at first. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is one of William Wordsworth’s most famous poems. Analysis of Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloudīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Febru
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