I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

In the title there are three stressed words: wandered, lonely, cloud

Lonely à solitary, alone

Cloud à sky, nature, weather

The text might be about a person who is alone and walks in a country. There's a simile in the title.

After looking at the title the reader may expect the poem to be about somebody who is alone, moving without a definite direction, probably in the country. On a second thought the reader also realizes that the title is a simile, thus creating a clear comparison between the subject of a poem and a cloud. Moreover the level of sound of the title creates the effect of a wide space thanks to the use of long open vowel sounds that also creates an assonance.

The title creates a certain curiosity in the reader who might be interested in discovering the reason of the comparison.

The poem is about a walk the poet takes in the country and in a pleasant feeling he has in front of a field of daffodils moving in the breeze. The poet looks full of energy so that he remembers again and there are so many that they recall a line that never ends. The waves of the lake beside also were moved by the breeze but they were not as nice as the daffodils. The poet was totally caught by the scene and he could not but watch the flowers without thinking of their pleasant effect. It was only later when the poet was relaxed on a sofa without any worry that he was able to re-create the scene in his imagination that he perfectly understood the bliss the daffodils had brought to him.