Just considering the title the reader can make some hypothesis about the message the poet wants to send. Fist of all it focuses the reader's attention on the personal pronoun I and on the adjective "alone". The reader can easily understand that the poem is a lyrical poem, in which the poet wants to express his loneliness. Another important term of the title is "cloud": it reminds us to the natural elements. Further more the verb "wandered" represents the typical motion of clouds: they apparently have no define way. The poet uses a simile to say that he has got no destination.

The poem is organised in four sextets. In the first one the poet begins telling his memory and describing the natural landscape in which he was walking and especially he introduces the object of the poem: the daffodils, that are fluttering and dancing. They are described as if they were people (personification). In the second stanza he goes on describing the multitude of flowers and he compares them to the stars that twinkle in the sky (Simile). They create a light and they also have got strength. The third stanza describes for the first time the effects of the sight of the daffodils and of their memory on the poet. He remembers that experience. His reflection goes on in the fourth stanza, in which he defines his memory the bliss of the solitude, because when he remembers that experience his heart dance as the daffodils.

The intelligent reader can find some important aspects in the poem. First of all the presence of the personal pronoun "I", that underlines that the subject of the composition is not the natural element, but the lyrical "I". as a consequence the poet focus the reader's attention on his reaction to the experience and not on the experience itself. It is filtered by the speaking voice, who uses it in order to express his emotions and feelings. The pronoun "I" is also key-word.

There is an antithesis between two semantic fields: the fist on describes the solitude of the speaking voice and the second underlines the joy and company of nature, who seems not to feel this sort of sadness and solitude. Nature can become his company and represents the solution of his loneliness and sadness.

The poem presents the most important features of romantic poetry. They especially deal with its themes. It appeals to imagination, passion, emotional intensity of individual experience and natural events.

Nature can become the company of the lyrical "I" and represents the solution of his loneliness and sadness. It is anthropomorphised, animated and the speaking voice has a pantheistic attitude towards the daffodils. The natural landscape represents his source of joy.

The reader can see a lot of perception verb: what romantic poetry does is to express the subjective emotional reaction of the speaking voice.

On the phonological level you can perceive the high level of long open vowel sounds, which create a very wide dimension, an echo effect. In addition the anaphoric use of the language creates an euphonic effect and last the use of the progressive aspect of the verbs adds motion to the picture, thus contributing to the dynamism of the scene, by which nature seems to have a life on its own. On contrast, the use of the simple past represents the record of a memory.

The speaking voice has expressed his memory appealing to sight: the vision has totally involved the poet, from the emotional point of view.

In "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" you can find the typical features of Romantic poetry:

• Set in the country (the ideal setting for Romantic inspiration);

• Subjective perception;

• records of a memory;

• solitude of the speaking voice;

• highly metaphorical use of the language;

• personal relationship of the poet with nature;

• lyrical, it represents something intimate.