Wordsworth “Daffodils” also known as “I Wandered lonely as a Cloud” is one of the most celebrated and oft anthologized of Wordsworth’s works. The inspiration was an experience on April 15, 1802 when Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth came across “a long belt” of Daffodils.” The poem was first published in Poems in Two Volumes, in 1807.The poem penned in iambic tetrameter has the rhyme scheme ABABCC . Each stanza consists of a quatrain and a couplet. The Westminster Review described the poem as “very exquisite.”

The death of his brother John had a profound impact on Wordsworth and he felt dejected. Nevertheless, the warmth and love Dorothy Wordsworth exuded imparted a positive influence on Wordsworth. The influence of the Daffodils at once emblematizes the all-pervading essence and presence of Dorothy Wordsworth. At the outset, he describes himself as lonely as a cloud. The image of the cloud evokes the paradigm of transparency in its purest form. The initiative of floating over vales and hills reflects the idea of being in a state of high despite being in seclusion. Note that being in isolation, he notes the ‘crowd’ in the form ‘daffodils’ and, is enchanted to find the same more than he would at discovering human multitude.…